It's possible that one could create consortiums of private equity as you describe. The question is if this could ever be enough for projects of such great...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 2, 2008 5:06 pm
I agree that rotovator concepts have a definite near-term advantage in that they are doable with existing materials and can easily be experimented with using...
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Bill Haught
autumnofburn...
Feb 2, 2008 10:30 pm
First off, it may be better to integrate some of this stuff in your blog or wikis (or refer to them if it is there) than spend quite so much time on your...
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Bill Haught
autumnofburn...
Feb 3, 2008 12:16 am
I notice Eric Hunting doesn't buy the gloom-and-doom and prefers a more incremental and positive approach that standing in stark contrast to what I have in...
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John Frazer
johnf4303
Feb 3, 2008 7:42 am
Space Leaders Work To Replace Lunar Base With Manned Asteroid Missions http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp? ...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 3, 2008 5:36 pm
Someone scanned a copy of that Usborne Book Of The Future from 1979. Obviously intended for a child audience and culling the works of a lot of different...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 3, 2008 6:02 pm
Thanks a lot for pointing this out. I probably would have never found out about this otherwise. I think this is worth making a pitch, though reading their ...
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ben lipkowitz
mow4212345
Feb 4, 2008 3:51 pm
Eric, There seem to be some misunderstandings in your comparison of rotovator vs beanstalks. 1) The reason for the mach 12 number is the specific strength of...
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Thomas Bjelkeman-Pett...
bjelkeman
Feb 5, 2008 8:51 am
Thanks Eric for pointing this out. I hugely enjoyed that. Thomas ... [snip] ... -- Thomas Bjelkeman-Pettersson, thomas@... OTEC News - The news source...
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ben lipkowitz
mow4212345
Feb 6, 2008 9:23 am
Today I came across this excellent resource, designed apparently as a role-playing game, but containing scientifically accurate scenarios for a broad array of...
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Charles
charles67.rm
Feb 6, 2008 12:25 pm
Nice idea, I've been a fan of OTEC since I learned about it in the mid 90's. Speaking of playing matchmaker, I'm hoping some of you will take a liking to this...
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Charles
charles67.rm
Feb 6, 2008 12:26 pm
The images posted on that site are (to me) incredibly beautiful! I would absolutely love to live in Technopolis, the best part would be to use a craft called...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 10, 2008 6:50 pm
Another interesting Post-Industrial tech project; a bamboo bike for African local production. http://www.bamboobike.org/Home.html Looks like a pretty smart...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 10, 2008 6:55 pm
Gallery site for the National Space Society space settlement art contest. http://www.nss.org/settlement/calendar/gallery.htm This needs some study. Not only...
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martin woodhead
woody68uk
Feb 10, 2008 7:12 pm
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Robert Reed
mad_scientis...
Feb 12, 2008 9:31 pm
Class-2 vehicles could be possibly be profitable. However, these types of flights would be used as a speedy alternative to global airline travel. NY to Tokyo...
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RanulfC@...
ranulfcampbell
Feb 13, 2008 5:53 am
Mostly because I can use the line: "Look to the skies! They're coming!!" Japan's new Space Plane looks so good on paper ...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 13, 2008 4:04 pm
This is a difficult set of concepts to sum up simply. Basically, we are already in an era of 'demassification', this has been going on for roughly half the...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 13, 2008 5:17 pm
Another interesting glimpse of how the future works, through the example of a novel flat-pak furniture suite; http://www.mein-casulo.de/en/en_index.htm Eric...
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Jopnatan Bravo
jonatan252000
Feb 14, 2008 11:16 am
Dear Eric, Thank you for your interesting thoughts. We may however collectively be heading for the wall in terms of cheap energy availability. Peak oil and for...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 14, 2008 4:38 pm
Concerning item one, the tip speed for a rotovator is not a product of the tether material strength and how far to the ground it goes. It's determined by the...
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ben lipkowitz
mow4212345
Feb 15, 2008 7:37 am
... I might have been misusing the terminology. These are all momentum exchange tethers: skyhook - vertical relative to planet bolo - rotating, in space ...
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ben lipkowitz
mow4212345
Feb 15, 2008 8:18 am
... Fusion research has been hampered by political pork interests - there's a lot of money going into LLNL/ITER and that money commands votes! So nobody's...
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Jopnatan Bravo
jonatan252000
Feb 15, 2008 5:35 pm
Dear Fenn, There are a number of politico-financial interests who have slowed reseach related to controlled theremonuclear fusion reactors during the past 50...
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Eric Hunting
erichunting2001
Feb 16, 2008 1:20 am
I don't mean to sound critical or argumentative, but I don't quite understand why anyone who is confident in the very imminent doom of the civilization would...
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Terry Kok
biostar_a
Feb 16, 2008 2:54 pm
JB - First of all I have to say that I agree with your assessment of the state of the planet and what may very well come to pass as folks run out of fuel,...
Dear Terry, Thank you for your e-mail. Developing operational self-sustaining off-the-grid residences is certainly a positive way forward. I would be very much...
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Jopnatan Bravo
jonatan252000
Feb 16, 2008 8:09 pm
I cannot open any of those links. JB ... From: Terry Kok <biostar_a@...> To: luf-team@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:53:27 AM ...
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Jopnatan Bravo
jonatan252000
Feb 16, 2008 8:39 pm
Dear Eric, Thank you for your e-mail. It is clear that if humanity is to have any long-term future it must move to space and develop on as many worlds as...
