Ethanol From Waste Straw

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> [...] it's the liability
> when you occasionally miss with your millions of beaming lasers
> that I
> would worry about...
>
> That was my take on it too (sounds like you're talking about William
> Mook's proposal).
>
Hmm, no, it was in a rather long paper on an SPS design using fiber
optic waveguides and solid state lasers for power transmission within
the satellite, and a highly adjustable Fresnel lens for transmission.
Roughly. Probably some cross-fertilization I wasn't aware of though.