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    Default US Company to get energy from space

    Anyone who is not brainwashed by 'Financial Terrorists' running shady web-sites knows

    GDP Growth is Wealth Creation
    More Energy => More GDP

    Clueless Idiots continue to scare about Earth's resources discounting the human potential (possible only through Fiat Money)

    http://forum.stripperweb.com/showthr...ng#post1546456

    Less than two years later

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/ene...-in-space.html

    Let's see how this Black Swan event turns out.

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    ^^^ that wouldn't be a 'Black Swan' event, since the expected result was also expressed at your link ...

    (snip)"Daniel Kammen, professor in energy and resources at the University of California, Berkeley, told the Guardian: "The ground rules are looking kind of promising ... it is doable. Whether it is doable at a reasonable cost, we just don't know." (snip)

    ... so the ultimate questions for investors boil down to -

    - how much of the real cost of this venture will be ( unknowingly ) borne by federal taxpayers funding green energy grants to the solar developer ?

    - how much of the real cost of 'electricity from space' will be ( unknowingly ) borne by PG&E's conventionally generated electricity customers via higher than necessary electric rates ?

    - how much of the real cost of 'electricity from space' will be borne by California state taxpayers funding massive electric bill subsidies for 'poor' Californians also facing higher than necessary electric rates ?

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    ^^^ Oh, and I forgot to include the 5 years worth of lawsuit related project delays and resulting cost over-runs as environmentalists figure out that a 200 megawatt microwave beam aimed at a stationary earth receiver is probably going to par-broil every bird, bee and bug that happens to have the misfortune of flying through the beam !

    Of course, this little complication only matters if the TRUE intent of such a project is to actually produce and transport power from a satellite to earth. But if the actual intent of the project is to cash in on gov't grants, gov't tax credits etc. then there is no real need for the project to ever actually produce one watt of power, profitably or not.

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