On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 15:07:37 GMT, in a place far, far away, Scott
Lowther made the phosphor on my
monitor glow in such a way as to indicate that:

SPSs, if they ever become possible and economical one day, aren't so
much about ensuring America's continued supply of cheap energy.
They're about enabling the rest of the world to live in the same kind
of abundance, energy-wise, as so far only the industrialized world
could.


Errrr.... how would, say, Nepal, Chad or Paraguay build SPS systems?

They wouldn't have to build SPS systems. They would only have to
build rectennas. I didn't have to launch a satellite to view DirecTV.