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Wed Apr-15-09 01:21 PM
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The thing that kneecaps SBSS is the energy and economic costs to schlep stuff up out of our gravity well. If there's some hypothetical secret disruptive technology out there that could turn this around, I think it would be in the arena of aerospace, not PV.
If I take that Zerta paper at face value, a successful space elevator might actually put this into a realistic cost/energy envelope. But space elevators remain in the realm of hand-waving too. Much as I'm rooting for those LiftPort guys.
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