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From: fyl@fylz.UUCP (Phil Hughes)
Newsgroups: sci.research,sci.space,misc.headlines,sci.misc
Subject: Re: Success with cold fusion reported
Summary: Was this an April 1 special?
Message-ID: <291@fylz.UUCP>
Date: 1 Apr 89 15:29:13 GMT
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In article <8328@csli.STANFORD.EDU>, cphoenix@csli.STANFORD.EDU (Chris Phoenix) writes:
| In article <1113@gvgpsa.GVG.TEK.COM> johna@gvgpsa.gvg.tek.com.GVG.TEK.COM (John Abt) writes:
| >>[quotation deleted]
| >With unlimited cheap and pollution-free energy available, we won't be
| >talking about the greenhouse effect, it will be the furnace effect.

| Not necessarily.
| Imagine how cheap it would be, with unlimited power, to turn large areas of
| land into mirrors.  Just find any sandy area such as a desert, then melt it
| smooth, then sputter on some shiny metal.
| I don't know the statistics on the amount of energy in sunlight falling on
| the earth, but it's some amazing number of times greater than the amount
| of energy we use.  In other words, we could compensate for all the energy 
| we use by covering a relatively small part of the earth's surface with
| mirrors to reflect all the heat back out into space.  

The way I read this, you said we should build cheap fusion reactors to
supply our energy needs and they build mirrors to reflect an equal amount
of energy back into space to keep the earth from heating up.  Richt?

Might I suggest that it would be easier and cost less if you just built
the mirrors to reflect the energy into a collection system and used that
energy.  Or is this too low tech?

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