Barry Haworth <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Nowadays, though, the price of energy is on the up and up, and the price
> access to space just might be coming down.  Who knows?  We might live to see
> O'Neill's space colonies yet.

I don't know that the price of energy per se is ever going to go up fast enough
to make solar power satellites more economical than burning fossil fuels. I
think for that to happen we'll have to incorporate other costs in the price of
energy, like carbon taxes.

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  Helge Moulding
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