[dnautics]

What if instead of solar panels, you put up big mirrors, and instead of earth you have them orbit far closer to the sun?

Btw, great quote.

[jlebrech]

yes, and shuttling antimatter batteries back to earth.

[wffurr]

And people get scared of "giant solar death rays" from beaming solutions for power transmission. Anti-matter batteries sound terrifying.

[speeder]

Heh, that sounds great.

Someone make a stupid mistake on the ground, and your ship crash, and then BOOOM, a 20km wide hole shows up in your space center.