Posts by TimothyB 9 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jul 2009
It's funny how one of the things which makes online advertising so annoying (it coming from other domains, usually via rather slow CDNs) makes it so easy to block. If websites served all their image content and advertising content from the same directory adblock would be a lot harder to use...
Good on you though Reg, when's the switch to a subscription model coming then? :)
That this kind of technology will take off is when we have automated/robotic space-based manufacturing capability, using materials obtained from either mining on the moon or the capture of a NEO. Preferably this would involve self-replicating robots capable of churning out solar panels without much human intervention. They'd also need to be capable of maintaining the arrays once built.
And transmission back to earth would be better done using some kind of tether rigged with superconducting cables - else the transmission losses just make the whole scheme even sillier.
Launching the equipment from Earth would be madness using our current disposable rocket technology. Better to spend the money on developing fusion, or building terrestrial solar arrays...
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