Beamed Power

>>>Yeah? And? These power stations aren't THAT expensive. Few tens of
>>>millions or so. Maybe one hundred million.
>> And then some. They come in about $1 billion per gigawatt.
>Ok, I was assuming a power of around 100 megawatts, so I was
>about right.

I am getting a little lost in this thread. I think that it was discussing
bouncing power from earth to GEO and back. In that case the comparison
cost is the cost of the transmission line between points A and B
and the conversion equipment. Not the power plant which you are
going to have to have anyway.

Mitchell James
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