http://blog.nss.org/?p=3158 Blogging for the creation of a spacefaring civilization Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:58:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://blog.nss.org/?p=3158&cpage=1#comment-39095 Richard Cramer Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:53:28 +0000 http://blog.nss.org/?p=3158#comment-39095 If you share my belief that the intrinsic long-run seeming superiorities of space solar power should get it more attention, then you might well be interested in the current candidacy of Martin Heinrich in a close race for US Senator from New Mexico. At a rally last Saturday I met Heinrich to expose SSP’s merits, and to my complete surprise he not only seemed very interested, he was already knowledgeable enough to ask whether “microwave transmission was the preferred transmission technology?” Wouldn’t putting such a promising engineer-turned-politician into the Senate offer a unique potential leverage for furthering SSP? If you share my belief that the intrinsic long-run seeming superiorities of space solar power should get it more attention, then you might well be interested in the current candidacy of Martin Heinrich in a close race for US Senator from New Mexico. At a rally last Saturday I met Heinrich to expose SSP’s merits, and to my complete surprise he not only seemed very interested, he was already knowledgeable enough to ask whether “microwave transmission was the preferred transmission technology?” Wouldn’t putting such a promising engineer-turned-politician into the Senate offer a unique potential leverage for furthering SSP?

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