Mining the asteroid belt would be easy if the powers that be would release the gravity and inertia based technologies they have been keeping beyond top secret. These technologies exist, but are simply highly classified. With these technologies mining the asteroid belt would be extremely easy. Of course when these technologies emerge there would be little need for cold fusion, because more advanced energy technologies would emerge.
________________________________ From: "mix...@bigpond.com" <mix...@bigpond.com> To: vortex-l@eskimo.com Sent: Sat, April 30, 2011 4:34:42 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]:How best to go about mining the asteroid belt for nickle In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:19:49 -0500: Hi, [snip] >Aiming nickel laden asteroids directly at Earth would IMO be a horrible >suggestion, even if each asteroid was strategically slowed down to a less >threatening reentry speed, even if engineering calculated precisely where >each asteroid would reenter our atmosphere over a desolate spot. I wonder >how much would be lost, i.e., burned up in the atmosphere. Could such >reentry operations, particularly if performed on a massive scale contribute >to unnecessary atmospheric pollution and/or other environmental hazards? They would first be placed in Earth orbit, then landed using something like a space shuttle (I imagine), at least initially. Otherwise one risks losing too much during reentry burn up. Although that depends on the size I guess. Small ones would lose a relatively large proportion, while very large ones might be quite economical, however they also make a much larger "dent". ;) Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
