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From: hansen@mips.COM (Craig Hansen)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Payload of shuttle flight directly after last Challenger.
Message-ID: <1680@mips.mips.COM>
Date: 25 Feb 88 18:50:08 GMT
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In article <442@flatline.UUCP>, erict@flatline.UUCP (eric townsend) writes:
> I am worried about coal.  I think coal and hydrocarbon fuels in general
> are a really bad idea.  I also wish solar powered everything would become
> economical...  I've read a lot of stuff on alternative energy that leads
> me to beleive it'd be quite easy.

We're getting a little off the subject, here, but don't forget that
there are highly toxic materials in solar cells, too. Solar-power
technology hasn't advanced much in the last ten years, and doesn't
really promise to advance much in the next ten years - if it becomes
"more economical" it is only because other sources are becoming "less
economical." Why you would _wish_ that is beyond my comprehension.

-- 
Craig Hansen
Manager, Architecture Development
MIPS Computer Systems, Inc.
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