RE: For David Brin and the rest of you
Pat Mathews <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Sep 2013 05:38:57 -0600
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--===============9217120207723158924== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_5ad5d11e-ac76-4084-b046-1f3493c0aace_" --_5ad5d11e-ac76-4084-b046-1f3493c0aace_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Date: Thu=2C 5 Sep 2013 08:24:00 -0300 > Subject: Re: For David Brin and the rest of you > From: [email protected] > To: brin-l-r0TUnz/JSrZWk0Htik3J/[email protected] >=20 > David Hobby wrote: > > > > Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently=2C prod= ucing > > much more heat than just the amount from people using energy directly? > > > No=2C even if it was possible to beam energy with 100% efficiency... > it's still energy. It comes down=2C it must get out. If not=2C Earth gets > cooked. >=20 > Hell on Earth=2C the nightmare of science fiction=2C brought to us by > those that try to save the planet. Isn't this the scenario of some > cheap sci-fi=2C where the Mad Scientist tries to destroy the Earth by > placing an enormous mirror or lens in orbit=2C concentrating solar > energy? >=20 > Just we don't need mirror or lens=2C place a lot of death ray > satellites. Sorry=2C power satellites. >=20 > Alberto Monteiro >=20 And of course=2C anything that can be that easily weaponized=2C will be. Re= member Heinlein's Loonies winning their independence by throwing rocks at t= he mother world?=20 = --_5ad5d11e-ac76-4084-b046-1f3493c0aace_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html> <head> <style><!-- .hmmessage P { margin:0px=3B padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 12pt=3B font-family:Calibri } --></style></head> <body class=3D'hmmessage'><div dir=3D'ltr'><br><br><div>>=3B Date: Thu=2C= 5 Sep 2013 08:24:00 -0300<br>>=3B Subject: Re: For David Brin and the re= st of you<br>>=3B From: [email protected]<br>>=3B To: brin-l@mccm= edia.com<br>>=3B <br>>=3B David Hobby wrote:<br>>=3B >=3B<br>>=3B= >=3B Or are you worried about energy being beamed down inefficiently=2C = producing<br>>=3B >=3B much more heat than just the amount from people = using energy directly?<br>>=3B >=3B<br>>=3B No=2C even if it was poss= ible to beam energy with 100% efficiency...<br>>=3B it's still energy. It= comes down=2C it must get out. If not=2C Earth gets<br>>=3B cooked.<br>&= gt=3B <br>>=3B Hell on Earth=2C the nightmare of science fiction=2C broug= ht to us by<br>>=3B those that try to save the planet. Isn't this the sce= nario of some<br>>=3B cheap sci-fi=2C where the Mad Scientist tries to de= stroy the Earth by<br>>=3B placing an enormous mirror or lens in orbit=2C= concentrating solar<br>>=3B energy?<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Just we don't n= eed mirror or lens=2C place a lot of death ray<br>>=3B satellites. Sorry= =2C power satellites.<br>>=3B <br>>=3B Alberto Monteiro<br>>=3B <br><= br>And of course=2C anything that can be that easily weaponized=2C will be.= Remember Heinlein's Loonies winning their independence by throwing rocks a= t the mother world? <br></div> </div></body> </html>= --_5ad5d11e-ac76-4084-b046-1f3493c0aace_-- --===============9217120207723158924== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline