Re: SPS ERoEI is excellent

On Sep 21, 10:21 pm, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Totorkon <aertr...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:
:Of course it is likely that kerosene or liquid methane will be the
:fuel and when compared to the electricity these fuels would produce, a
:single month of sps output would effectively equal the total energy
:cost of manufacture, transportation and assembly, including that of
:the launch vehicles, ion engines and construction 'bots'.
:

So why do you think nobody is pouring money into this if it's such a
great deal?

--
"Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
 territory."
                                      --G. Behn

Twenty thousand dollars per installed kW, just for transportation to
orbit, for starters. Then there is the scale, anything under 5GW is
impractical.
.

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