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From: pokey@well.UUCP (Jef Poskanzer)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,sci.misc
Subject: Re: efficiency / greenhouse effect / solar power satellites
Message-ID: <5590@well.UUCP>
Date: 3 Apr 88 19:17:39 GMT
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In the referenced message, eli@spdcc.COM (Steve Elias) wrote:
}sheesh.  you guys are missing my point regarding efficiency and solar
}power satellites.  

Sheesh.  Does this guy have a lot of nerve or what?  He's just finished
making a 99.9% fool of himself over the thermal balance issue, and now he
wants us to believe:

  A) that eight intelligent people (John F Carr, G.Gleason, Jef Poskanzer,
     James W. Meritt, Karl Owen / Wayne Throop, Michael Friedman, T. Dave
     Hudson, and Ed Kaulakis) somehow don't understand something that one
     fool (Steve Elias) does understand; and
  B) that the efficiency issue matters at all, since the entire thermal
     balance issue has proven to be bullshit.

Tell ya what, Stevie Baby.  You go right on believing that ten one-gigawatt
coal-fired power plants, with 30% thermal efficiency, heat up the Earth less
than one ten-gigawatt rectenna with 90% efficiency.  You'll be WRONG, but
then Ronald Reagan is wrong a lot too, and he gets paid $200,000 / year.
Meanwhile, the rest of us are going to IGNORE you.

By the way Stevie, I think I've figured out why you get so pissed off
whenever anyone displays intellect superior to yours.  It's because it
happens so often!  It must get really tiresome, eh?  Poor Baby.
---
Jef

              Jef Poskanzer   jef@lbl-rtsg.arpa   ...well!pokey
     "Not only do I not suffer fools gladly, I don't suffer them AT ALL."
                             -- Jerry Pournelle