RE: Greens add to Greenhouse gasses

On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 11:00 AM,  "Dan Minette" <[email protected]> wrote:

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> I was basically asking if you've been around the block. That's not an appeal
> to authority, just the result of the observation that folks who've walked
> the walk are more likely to be accurate the next time they talk the talk
> than folks who never walked the walk.

It's not hard to find out what I have done,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Henson

> I did look at high energy lasers, and the person who wrote
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> http://www.rp-photonics.com/high_power_lasers.html
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> Looks like he has worked with high power lasers.  One notes that high power
> is 5 kWatt, and the many caveats for use at that energy.

These  http://www.as.northropgrumman.com/products/vesta/ are 15 kW and
have been ganged to over 100 kW.  Getting to the GW level (out in
space no less) is just a matter of having a lot of money to buy lasers
and haul them out there.

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> So, I won't say never to power satellites, but
> I'd saw it's probably three black swans away....and they have to be just the
> three black swans we need.

If you have a better way to get humanity off fossil fuels, don't keep
it to yourself.

Make a good case that it's cheaper and I will support that instead of
working on power satellites and laser propulsion.

Keith