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from Don
         Hi, Charles -

I would appreciate it if you'd go find Peter Glaser and fund him.
He's the father of geosync solar power sats, and I really wish his time would come. :-)

It is really amazing what a simple sheet of mylar can do in terms of changing the climate
 of an area by redirecting sunlight! Talk about passive solar!!!
tnx! cheers! -- Dan   

Is this him?
Dr. Glaser served on several NASA Committees including Task Force on Space Goals, NASA
  Advisory Council (1984-1989), and Lunar Enterprise Case Study (1988-89). He formed the
  SUNSAT Energy Council in 1978; an NGO associated with the United Nations Economic and Social
  Council, and currently serves as its Chairman. He also chaired the Space Power Committee of the
  International Astronautical Federation (1984-89). He has served on committees of the National
  Academy of Sciences and the Office of Technology Assessment of the United States Congress.
  He was President of the International Solar Energy Society (1968-69), and was the Editor-in-Chief
  of the Journal of Solar Energy (1971-1984). Dr. Glaser received the Farrington Daniels Award from
  the International Solar Energy Society in 1983.

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Pravda.RU:Society:More in detail

 02:07 2001-07-06
  PREPARATIONS TO BEGIN ON FRIDAY FOR PUTTING TO SEA SUBMARINE
 TO LAUNCHA SPACECRAFT  WITH SOLAR SAIL

 On Friday in Severomorsk (a port on the Kola peninsula in the Barents
sea) preparations will begin for  putting to sea a submarine which will put into orbit a spacecraft,Kosmos-1, with solar sail. This was reported to RIA Novosti at the Babakin
 research center.
 The enterprise, located in Khimki near Moscow, has designed and manufactured a
 technical sail for the  spacecraft.
 The research center said that the launch of an experimental craft with solar sail was
initiated by the  International Planetary Society and is planned for the end of July.
Launch will be made by a Volna booster  rocket, which is a spinoff of the naval missile
PSM-50.  The experiment will determine a possibility for using a common sail for
 propelling spacecraft. The "wind"  will be the pressure of solar rays, which was
discovered in Russia in the beginning of last century, said the  research center.
 If the idea of using solar rays for the flight of spacecraft is confirmed, this technical
 innovation will have a  great future before it, said the center. It will, particularly, decide
the problem of sending large craft into the  depth of the Solar system without providing
 them with heavy and costly power plant and fuel.

The Babakin research center reported that Russia has already prepared a
project for sending  to Mars a space station with a sail of thin film 400 square kilometres in area. RIA 'Novosti'
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Researchers Lift Obelisk With Kite to Test Theory on Ancient
Pyramids  Robert Tindol Caltech  July 6, 2001

                        

Caltech Team
Raising Obelisk  With Kite On June 23, 2001, Mory Gharib,  a Caltech aeronautics professor,
  (3132.6-kilogram), 15 foot(3.0-meter) obelisk into vertical  position in the desert near  Palmdale
by using only a kite, a pulley system, and a support frame.Photograph by Robert Tindol
 PALMDALE, California—When people think abou the building
 of the Egyptian pyramids, they probably have a mental image
of thousands of slaves laboriously rolling massive stone
blocks into place with logs and levers. But one Caltech
aeronautics professor has set out to demonstrate that the
task could have been accomplished by several peopleusing
a kite to move the heavy stones.

 On June 23, Mory Gharib and his team raised a 6,900-pound
(3132.6 kg), 15-foot (3.0 m) obelisk into vertical position in the
desert near Palmdale by using only a kite, a pulley system, and a
support  frame. Although the blustery winds were gusting up to 22
miles (35.4 km) per hour, the team set the obelisk upright on their
second attempt.


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Original date of copyright 1996
So what
I designed this in 1996
I f you have a new Idea don't sit on it...
He who rest on his Laurels wears them
on the wrong place

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subject: electronic book revisited
Sun, 11 May 2003 19:39:22 +0000
THANKS 2 JESSY
Hello Charles,
      I was reading through the annual statement from IBM and came across
the following passage that made me think of our talks at Avenue C about your
computerized book idea.  "Imagine a high-density storage device capable of
holding a trillion bits of information - the equivalent of 25 million
textbook pages of data - on something the size of a postage stamp.  It's
code-named "millipede" for its thousands of nano-sized "feet" (or tips),
used to punch single-bit indentations into plastic film."
     Doesn't this sound like the combination of the computerized book and
the conducting plastic film you were talking about on Avenue C?  I guess
someone was listening and now (thirty years later) IBM is trying to make it.
     Thank you for the information about the free anti-pop-up, and
anti-spy-bot software.
     Warmer weather is making an appearance along with the sunshine here.  
This spring has been a bit better for me with a contract providing a little
income.  Just in time to pay for car repairs and insurance.  I thought I
would repair the electric brakes on my utility trailer and put a bed on it
to receive stuff I have stored on a tree platform in the woods.  The  
weather is getting dry and warm enough to begin such work.  The contract I
am working on got extended another month so I will have to wait for the
weather to become even warmer and drier before taking on the trailer repair
job.
     New York must be great now between the cold of winter and the humid
heat of summer; a great time to walk about town.
    I hope you and L.  are enjoying the season.
Cheers,
Jesse
THANKS 4 THE PAYLOAD

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