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Possibly :) It's been a few years since I read about it, but I think that was the estimate for both developing the tech and deploying it. Of course there's the
by db48x 8y ago
Possibly :)
It's been a few years since I read about it, but I think that was the estimate for both developing the tech and deploying it. Of course there's the chance that they spend all $50 billion and still fail to find a way to make carbon nanotubes work at macroscopic scale, but I bet they'd have learned quite a lot of other interesting things doing that research.
And they did have a lot of trouble deploying tethers from the space shuttle that one time.
- dekhn 8y agoyes. The TL;DR is you don't spend $150B on a project you can't achieve with the hope that some of the side-products are useful. You spend $150B on a portfolio of projects that are likely to succeed, and monitor the physical properties of recent inventions, then if you have a plausible engineering plan and a good business model, you may proceed to blow $150B.