Friday, April 4, 2014

Next Big Future: 400 tons of mini carbon nanotube solar sails can b...

Next Big Future: 400 tons of mini carbon nanotube solar sails can b...: Adam Crowl and Crowlspace details “Sail-Beam” or “Macron Beam” propulsion of humans in spaceships to about 4.5% of lightspeed. Quarter-wav...



Solar sails are intriguing.  I've written about them.  If you want to finance a big project like this, then use the same technology to mine asteroids.  But that would make too much sense.




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