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In article <hatunenDK943G.GFy@netcom.com> hatunen@netcom.com (DaveHatunen) writes:

>   >I suspect that masering energy from Mercury orbit to a parabolic
>   >collector on the moon and then back to collectors on earth would 
>   >be more efficient than an L5 collector.  Of course, that's a ways 
>   >down the road.

>   People who talk about these narrow beams of power over these great
>   distances merely indicate their ignorance of the principles of optics.
>   Please learn a little about apertures and dispersion before suggesting
>   these things.

Or perhaps, they are simply not aware of the scale of the engineering
that would be involved.  There is no basic physical principle to prevent
the beaming of energy from Mercury to the moon, etc.  The trasmitting
and receiving antennas would need, to put it mildly, to be quite large.

Narrow is in the eye of the beholder.

--- sam