On Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:03:02 -0500, Joe Strout wrote,
in part:
In article ,
"Paul F. Dietz" wrote:
Joe Strout wrote:

I very seriously doubt that.

I didn't say it would be paying for itself, just that it'd be generating
energy (by which I meant to imply, producing more energy than it takes
to run it -- practically a tautology in the case of a power satellite,
but still elusive in the case of fusion).

Ah. To most people, *unless* it can pay for itself, there is no reason
to expect it to be producing energy - or existing.

Sending a very tiny satellite into orbit costs several million
dollars, so sending up a *really big* solar power satellite would seem
to be rather more expensive.

John Savard
http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html