Solar powered lasers in space

In 1996 I wrote in these newsgroups about an idea I had worked out
about using thin film reflectors inflated on orbit to concentrate
sunlight onto a solar pumped laser. That laser beam would be beamed
to receivers on the ground which would convert the power to
electricity and thermal energy for industrial use. Overall efficiency
would be 40%

I was roundly attacked by all - and so, it was with great interest
that I read the following on yahoo news service in 2007;

http://green.yahoo.com/index.php?q=node/1521

I am fully justified in my earlier statements - and all those who
mercilessly attacked me have been proved dead wrong in their negative
assessments of my ideas.

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