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(Alex Terrell) wrote in message . com... (AA Institute) wrote in message . com... 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 |
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