Skylon/lasers/power satellites

2011-04-19 Thread Keith Henson
It's been known for decades that solar power satellites *can* send energy to the earth. Communication satellites do it every day, just not at levels useful for power. The question is cost, and that's almost all due to the high cost of rockets to get millions of tons of power satellite parts to

RE: Skylon/lasers/power satellites

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Minette
Any thoughts? Yes, their website looks like vaporware. I tried to find how many hundreds of millions of income their inventions are generatingor at least hardware that incorporates their inventions as one of two or three components generates. It's not that high of a hurdle, after all...for

Technology, science, and ideas who's time has come

2011-04-19 Thread Dan Minette
I was thinking, after my response, how many of the biggest revolutionary new companies started small. HP and Apple both started in the proverbial garage. Gates founded DOS on software he bought for $3000. Walton started with a single store and expanded to overcome the giants of K-Mart, Penney's