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I agree with Bruce. The sun puts out more energy in one second than all the puny resources of man can muster in years. We don't have to go to Mars, or Titan(what for?) or even the moon. I've always had a problem with spaceborn solar power stations, because beaming gigawatts of RF energy thru the Earth's atmosphere has always seemed a little scary to me. The whole flaw in all of the arguments is thinking government can fix the problem. I don't want any more of their fixes, they've messed up our lives enough. The only way government can fix anything is to get out of the way of researchers and private industry, and make the solutions worth the capital investments in research.
This is all a pipe dream, of course. I just received a mailer from my congressman, outlining how he's going to reduce our energy costs. Can you guess? Higher taxes. That's sure worked before, hasn't it?
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