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

Cars That Think

It would take two or three of these giant satellites to replace one large retiring coal or nuclear power station. As Lao Tzu observed long ago in the Tao Te Ching , “The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.” There is no denying the beauty of the idea of turning to deep space for inexhaustible electricity.

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