Mike Combs wrote:
"Sander Vesik" wrote in message
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It appears to be bar far better to use solar batteries and artifical
lightning combined with hydroponics.

I could believe this if I could believe that on a square-mile to square-mile
comparison, solar panels and electric lights were comparable in price to
aluminized Mylar and glass.

covering square kilometers with thick layers of ultraclear glass so that you
both have radiation protection and not too bad light losses won't probably
be cheap either.

I'm quite sceptical of designs that have there be rolling fields of
agriculture hapenning inside O'Neill colonies - it seems like both not overly
thought out and very wasteful of space.


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Regards,
Mike Combs
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We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the
best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the
Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely.
Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is
"somewhere else entirely."

Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier"



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Sander

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