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From: jwm@stdc.jhuapl.edu (James W. Meritt)
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Subject: Re: greenhouse effect
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Date: 28 Mar 88 13:36:58 GMT
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In article <22670@bbn.COM> eli@BBN.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
:	indeed something is bogus:  the very idea of Solar Power Satellites
:	being a useful energy source.  they would be enormously expensive
:	and enormously dangerous (thermally), if enough were built to 
:	actually provide a decent amount of energy.
 
:	energy put into building earthside collectors is not leaving the
:	earth/atmosphere system, so it doesn't negate the energy sent down
:	by the power satellites.  reflectivity changes due to the collectors
:	would have to be considered, as well.  but, regardless of reflectivity
:	changes, thermal equilibrium would be quite goofed up -- by waste heat
:	from the microwave receivers...


You could always put them such they would intercept all that energy wasted
heating things like deserts,open ocean, political undesirables, war zones,
and other places best left in the dark!
;~)    <== note smiley face!  I'M KIDDING!!!!!!!

I just have problem with term "useful energy source".  Maybe solution is
to move power-intensive operations (metal industry?) out of the earth/
atmosphere system?



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