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From: hkhenson@cup.portal.com (H Keith Henson)
Newsgroups: sci.space
Subject: Re: Space industry projects: dismantling moons and asteroids
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Date: 19 Dec 89 21:20:31 GMT
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davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) in responding to a question
I posted, suggested a design for a melting furnace cylinder which would keep
metal/rock vapor from messing up the mirrors.  The original posting was
about using heat from solar colectors directly to melt astroid metal, no
containers were implied.  Keith Henson