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Tropical Storm Ketsana Kills More Than 240, Displaces More Than 609,000 in Philippines

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Lab , Monterey, California. Portions of the Malacañang presidential palace in Manila were converted into refugee shelters. Ketsana has since strengthened into a typhoon, and is expected to intensify further as it approaches Vietnam, Laos, and Thailand, according to a government weather forecaster. Source: Navy Research.

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A Skeptic’s Take on Beaming Power to Earth from Space

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Each megasat could then convert gigawatts of power into a microwave beam aimed precisely at a big field of receiving antennas on Earth. These rectennas would then convert the signal to usable DC electricity. Additional inverters would then convert the electricity to grid-compatible AC current. But nature gets a vote.

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