European SPS

--- ANTIcarrot wrote:

> > From: Ian Woollard
> > On 25/05/07, bobunf wrote:
> > > It distresses to me to see space advocates waste
> time and resources
> > > advocating and dealing with a technological
> approach so completely
> > > off the wall as solar power satellites.
>
> > Um. I don't know where you got that from. FWIW I
> wrote a spreadsheet
> > to predict the costs (including economies of
> scale). I found that with
> > the standard scaling model, the cost was lower
> than todays wallplug or
> > even wholesale costs, including a return on
> investment.
>
> Yep. Bobunf is a complete moron. See my correction
> of him a few months ago.
> ;)

Come on, there is no need to get personal. It is
enough merely to point out the deficiencies in each
others' arguments.

Ed