Re: Solar constant

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From: DaveHatunen
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 00:00

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In article <30E0AFD5.41F5@mti.sgi.com>, James Salsman  <jps@mti.sgi.com> wrote:
>John McCarthy wrote:

[...]

>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.

[...]

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Subject: Re: Solar constant
Date: 1995/12/27
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