Re: Yes, Iraq War over OIL.

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:49:44 -0400, trudogg <independent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 08:11:56 -0400, Rick the Barnacle Brain.
<yaya@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I think the answer is to build a solar power farm on the moon and beam
the energy back, but that takes longer to do than the period between
elections so it'll never happen.

"The Lunar Solar Power (LSP) System can supply electric energy to
Earth at less than 0.01 $/kWe-h that is independent of the biosphere
and does not introduce CO2, ash, or other material wastes into the
biosphere."

Short version:

<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/04/020416073334.htm>

More detailed version:

<http://www.worldenergy.org/wec-geis/publications/default/tech_papers/17th_congress/4_1_33.asp>

...it seems to be feasible, but I didn't see an estimate of how much
it would cost to start all this up. We'd definitely need more than a
fleet of three shuttles to get all this up to the moon...and that is
only the beginning.

When a estimate is given for $/KwH, that generally means that such an amount
will pay for everything that is associated with producing the energy, including
construction, which would would include the rocketry.

Dave Head
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