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Kilometers-long water streams for a space tower and to fight wildfires

Proposal to use ultra high pressure water streams to hold aloft a space tower, to produce kilometers-long water streams to carry water from nearby lakes to fight wildfires, and to transport fresh water kilometers distances to drought ridden areas:Pumping pressurized fluids to high altitude for the space tower and for fighting forest...

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Shades of “Blade Runner”.

Beamed orbital propulsion, space solar power, laser missile defense doable now

Innovative new developments with ultra-high intensity micro-scale LED's make possible beamed orbital propulsion, space-based solar power, and laser missile defense:Beamed propulsion doable now, and with it space solar power. https://exoscientist.blogspot.com/2018/07/beamed-propulsion-doable-now-and-with.html

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