Mr. Olsons version of LSP #1

Thor,

Your plan is excellent.

My only comments relate to the Endgame section.

I understand your comments, but I have a little bit of a diffferent
perspective on the Endgame section.

> Greetings All,
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> 7) Endgame
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> The hardest of all sells will be on the earth to get people to use
this wonderful asset you build in space. At some point the earth

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Thor, What do you really mean here ?
Once the system is in place, it WILL be used, there is no question
of that. There is a very robust market for energy.

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and political interests represented by its people will be receptive
to this and it will become a complete reality. Until then there is
a long incubation period while you keep costs extremely low, life
very spartan, and very unassuming of anybody elses interests. If we

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Yes that is a key point. We must think of interim markets to try
and recoup costs as we go along, we cannot bet everything on the
final goal of energy beaming.

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> My gut feeling is that we will get funding at best a billion
dollars at a time and we have to show something impressive for this
to win the next one.

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Well showing quick results might not be so important.

Consider the nuclear fusion lobby....they have extracted billions of
dollars from the world's treasuries for nuclear fusion research on
the pretense of unlimited energy, and in 50 years we have precious
little to show for it, and no prospect of success for the forseeable
future.

But the billions keep flowing in their direction.

They continue to claim that for the last 50 years we have been ten
years away from vast energy production via nucler fusion reactors.
And despite ther lack of progress, the paymasters seem willing to go
along with it and fork over the tax dollars.

Personally I think we are at least 50 years away from viable fusion
right now.

All we need to do is get the same thinking and mindset focussed
towards space solar power. If people BELIEVE it, then it WILL get
funded, irregardless of the actual result.

It is more an excercise in psychology.

Nuclear Fusion is vaporware, with no known roadmap to success.
Yet it is heavily funded.

SPS is something we KNOW we can do in about 10 years, but so far,
has no funding.

Comments ?

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