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Subject: Re: Beamed Power
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 19:22:54 EST
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	A free electron laser does not emit free electrons,
it uses free electrons to generate light (or microwaves,
in which case it's a "microwave laser" like the original
lasers were "optical masers" :-)) which can be beamed using
big mirrors.