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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (140547)	9/26/2005 4:57:42 PM
From: SteveinTX	Respond to of 794411

I prefer this phrasing to that old adage: "Man who sits on ground waiting for roast duck to fly into mouth suffers from long hunger."

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (140547)	9/26/2005 11:15:17 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Respond to of 794411

I would prefer to invest in a project that would have long term benefits for mankind over attaching a loadstone to our worldwide economy. If the reason for the loadstone was based on good science, and there were no possible investment to achieve better results I might be more inclined to agree with the idea. From my perspective projecting a million year or even a yen thousand year trend from 30 years of measurements is problematic. When you include incomplete data from less than 200 years, the quality of the projection does not improve materially.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (140547)	9/27/2005 7:15:52 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794411

There are "deserts galore" but you get many times as much energy from solar power in space. As for roast birds that shouldn't be an issue. The energy would not be concentrated enough (the reciever would be enormous). However it might cause an interference problem for any device that broadcasts and/or recieves at a frequency close to the frequency they use to beam the power down. I still think that building it in orbit might make more sense. Its less than 1/10th the distance of the moon. If you are building solar power satelites it also makes sense to be a space elevator or elevators (assuming that we have developed strong enough materials), which would make building the solar power satelites (and any other space activity) much less expensive. en.wikipedia.org spaceelevator.com space.com