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>From OTA@SU-AI Wed Oct  7 04:25:53 1981

SPACE Digest                                      Volume 2 : Issue 7

Today's Topics:
			     Energy in Space
			   SPACE Digest V2 #6 
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Date:  6 Oct 1981 0815-PDT
From: DIETZ at USC-ECL
Subject: Energy in Space
To: space at MIT-MC

It seems to be gosple that "space is filled with free unlimited energy".
Is it free?  Compare the cost of a (say) 50KW diesel motor/generator and
a similar soloar powered unit in space.  I think the capital costs for
the space power unit are going to be at least an order of magnitude higher.
"But we save all that oil!"  Yes, we save oil, but with all the extra
money we spent on the solar unit we probably could have extracted more
oil than we saved.

Advocates of SPS ignore the fact that it is far too capital intensive.
And what is our biggest economic problem today?  Lack of capital - it's
all being consumed (that's wwhy interest rates are so high).  Solve this
problem, and the 'energy crisis' evaporates (without SPS).
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Date: 7 October 1981 04:51-EDT
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>
Subject: SPACE Digest V2 #6 
To: SPACE-ENTHUSIASTS at MIT-MC

Attempt to undigestify gives bad digest format.

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