O'Neill habitats, be they at L4 and L5 or even low earth orbits would, by necessity, be waste not want not societies. When one's over 226,000 from the nearest Walmart or Cosco, every man's trash is another man's treasure!
Let's see... 36 square feet feet of fresnel lenses in the sunward wall of my habitat should keep my solar forge fired up nicely 24/7, now how big a radiator do I need to dump my waste heat? ;-)
Joking aside , it's a shame we ain't there now working the kinks out of such systems.
It’s an interesting system. Thank you of reminding me about it.
Interesting, quite interesting.
O'Neill habitats, be they at L4 and L5 or even low earth orbits would, by necessity, be waste not want not societies. When one's over 226,000 from the nearest Walmart or Cosco, every man's trash is another man's treasure!
Let's see... 36 square feet feet of fresnel lenses in the sunward wall of my habitat should keep my solar forge fired up nicely 24/7, now how big a radiator do I need to dump my waste heat? ;-)
Joking aside , it's a shame we ain't there now working the kinks out of such systems.