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Old October 24th 04, 07:44 PM
Alex Terrell
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So you're saying bring in a small number of asteroids, one at a time,
then somehow use them as rocket fuel to build up toward a bigger
object? I don't understand this idea, please explain.


Exactly.


In more detail, something I did a few years back:

http://www.geocities.com/alexterrell.../Routemap4.doc

or via the intro if the above link doesn't work:

Thank you Alex for sharing that very detailed and fascinating insight.
BTW, the first link you supplied works just fine. Clearly, yourself
and Mark Prado went into a great deal of detail in your studies and I
hope you were appropriately rewarded at the time?!

Equally, I sincerely appreciate how frustrated we all feel when so
much painstaking effort goes into a research document of this kind and
it never gets implemented. I'm sure this will prove useful to a future
generation some day...
Keep up the good work (as they say!)

Abdul Ahad


Thanks for the compliment. Mark Prado didn't work directly on my
document, though his excellent website was (http://www.permanent.com/)
was most helpful.

The main reward is for myself - putting this down on paper helps get
my thinking straight. Since America's new Constellation direction,
I've started trying to redo this based on lunar resources. This has
confirmed my thinking that NEOs, rather than the moon, should be our
target. That said, the moon as a target is better than no target.

I would like to see more progress. I estimate that by the end of this
century world power demand will be of the order of 50TW. Apart from
SSP, I don't see what else can provide.

Alex