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--- In spacesettlers@y..., "Combs, Mike" wrote:
> Thanks for some calculations that put this into perspective.
>
> From: victoriatangoman [mailto:tango_dancer@h...]
>
> For me to buy into the 50 ft/ 40 ft scenario, I'd have to be
> convinced why a habitat would need more shielding that a nuclear
> power plant, and even if I was convinced on that point, I'd then
> have to conclude that an Island 3 would never be built. EVER.
> Because the economics just wouldn't work based on the scale of
> operation I've just outlined.
>
> And in fact, one of the things I read just today while looking at
the
> Stanford Study was that when one scales up from Island 1 to Island
3, one
> finds that the increase in structural mass, soil, and atmosphere
results in
> there no longer being a need for a separate radiation shield. And
that for
> this reason, habitats on the scale of Island 3 will become
economical to
> build before they would have otherwise.
>
> In other words, building a habitat for 100x the population would
not cost
> 100x as much.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Combs