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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

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Eric Steele's Space Project Was a Sham

Eric Steele planned to build solar panels in space, giant orbital arrays that would focus sunlight on immense solar panels. He set he'd lined up 100 billion dollars of investor money to fund a dozen orbital space stations. But it turns out that Steele's space proposal was a sham.

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