X-Message-Number: 29316 From: Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 02:52:29 EDT Subject: Re: CryoNet #29256 Re: substitutes From: "Mark Plus" <> Subject: Re: substitutes >As I pointed out in my post to Keith, this idea comes from a 1970's view of >"the future" that doesn't look that far removed from geodesic domes and >flying cars, only worse because we don't even have a working prototype. There is a new device : the laser triggered transistor, it can commute at the picosecond level 30 000 amperes under 800 volts. There are military "death ray" applications and some hope for power transmission to mobile units. That could be the key to both : The solar space power as envisioned by Peter Glaser in 1968 and the electrics flying car ! Yvan Bozzonetti. Content-Type: text/html; charset="ISO-8859-1" [ AUTOMATICALLY SKIPPING HTML ENCODING! ] Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=29316