Re: Solar powered lasers in space

Are you really William Mook with a new address that isn't yet in my
killfile, or are you merely an impostor trying to set off a flamefest?

Willie.Mookie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

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.

The earlier "attacks" were not casting aspersions on the technical
feasibility of space-based laser power beams. They were bringing up
legitimate concerns about the ability to send beams of high power
density through the air without risking damage to anything passing
through the beam.

(By the way, Hank Green's blog isn't a "news service".)
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