Re:Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space
by gtt on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @10:17AM
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which can be easily destroyed with cheap missle
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Re:Japan building 1GW, $21bn solar power station in space
by drats on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @10:45AM
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Ah but the thing would be so big that the space debris problem would have to be dealt with first or it would not be practical. And what better way to deal with space debris than to make the system capable of directing microwave and laser energy weapons (powered initially by RTGs hooked up to supercapacitors) at fast moving objects coming toward it from any angle?