Power sats aabout

>Good point, about the nickel,,,also a good reason to stress seeking
>nickel/iron asteroids as resource material, possibly captured in L4/L5.

Maybe if they are in the right place where relatively little delta V
is needed to get them there. But otherwise, I expect they will be
mined where found and what is wanted taken back to GEO for
fabrication into power sats. At first nickel may go all the way to
earth to be rolled into coils of sheet metal for making power sat
beams. It's hard to say. When you have earth cargo to GEO for less
than a hundred dollars a kg, it may be hard for ET materials to gain a market.

>Those and carbonaceous asteroids are prime candidates for SSPs(raw
>material) as well as "mining camps". Having worked in Saudi Arabia,
>I'm quite familiar with construction camps in a barren wilderness.
>Still, as sequestered as they were, we still had everything we
>needed for survival, some entertainment(including smuggled video
>tapes and alcohol) and of course, free food.

I suspect families are going to be shipped to GEO and later the
mining camps as soon as possible. This is a long term business, 3-4
decades at least. The number of people needed will be substantial
even if all they are doing is building and unjamming the automation.

Keith