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From: J.JPM@[36.21.0.13] (Jim McGrath)
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Subject: Black Holes and Useful Energy
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Date: Sat, 22-Mar-86 18:44:45 EST
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All the literature I have read always concentrated on recovering the
energy stored by the black hole as spin (afterall, it has the angular
momentum of the original star), not gravitational energy per se.
Apparently this approach has fewer engineering difficulties :-).


Jim



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