... A little too much faith in the markets there.... It's been widely reported that major political upheaval in Saudi Arabia could quickly quadruple world oil...
FYI, "Air Force Looks at New Microwave Weapon" Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/news? tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041005/ap_on_sc/microwave_weapons_1 ... Mark...
FYI all, I just posted a review of a recent talk by Rick Smalley, on the energy problem: http://www.sciscoop.com/story/2004/11/3/20322/6497 How do we get...
Interesting novel coming out in January or February next year: Ben Bova's "Powersat". He's written about them before of course, but the timing here is...
Group newbie here saying hello. Does anyone have a progress report (or any news whatsoever) on Mitsubishi's Solarbird SPS project? Their (very limited) English...
Tom: I've not received EMail traffic from this SPS group for sometime but that does not dampen my absolute support for its focus. Thank you for posting the...
... I attended the SPS'04 meeting in Granada this past summer, and we had quite a contingent there from Japan, including a number of people from Mitsubishi. I...
Glad to hear from this group, after years have gone by, and see it is still up and going. A very important subject. I created a new identity here, since my old...
Hello, I finished reading Ben Bova's latest novel "PowerSat" several days ago. It was more of a Dan Brown-esque murder thriller than a sci-fi novel. Despite...
markreiff: Thank you for the information, it is of interest. Certainly this could be used delivery of large amounts of cargo to Mars. Maybe processed ...
I think Bova's book is a big positive for SPS publicly, if many people read it - the possibility of it being turned into a weapon is there; why not face it...
Arthur: Well good point, full speed ahead. Simply put at a minimum there are technical means to disable any such scheme. Here on Planet Earth we have a...
Who is http://www.altenergyaction.org in any case? Why are they publishing a story about a book Powersat that is about Scary SPS's? I've not read the book but...
... It's not "about scary SPS's" - it's about the immense potential that SPS's convey, and the international criminal elements that would oppose them - you...
Arthur, I think the "AEA" website looks great! It's a wonderful idea... I encourage everyone on this site to sign up! Tom ... international criminal elements...
Mark: Thank you for the reference to Joshua Tompkins article, I took the time to read it. I going to assume that the effective time for the engine is about 8...
Mark: The costing looks much better than we've seen previously. It starting to put it into a real horse race with the Sterling Engines. The technology also...
I have a number for where SPS's for base load electric generation is break even with Oil. That number is $70 at the well head. The Oil part Gasoline cost is...
... Hmm, somebody told me the Japanese program had been shut down last summer. Any news from anybody on that? As you suggest, the real competition for SPS is...
Well, today I've been watch CNBC off then on, they've reported Oil at $53.77, 1500hrs., -5 GMT, and Coal is up but not reported. I'll buy a copy of Investment...
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