{"id":1054,"date":"2008-07-19T23:57:22","date_gmt":"2008-07-20T04:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1054"},"modified":"2008-07-19T23:57:22","modified_gmt":"2008-07-20T04:57:22","slug":"2008sec-day-2-eating-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1054","title":{"rendered":"2008SEC &#8211; Day 2 &#8211; Eating crow?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when I&#8217;m wrong, and I think I might have been wrong about the Space Elevator and Solar Power Satellites (SPS).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some &#8216;really smart people&#8217; look over the calculations I pu<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=622\">t on my blog<\/a> last year, and I think they&#8217;ve found a significant mistake.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got some more checking to do, and, if I was wrong, it means that SPS could indeed have a major role to play in solving the earth&#8217;s energy \/ pollution issues.<\/p>\n<p>It also means I may have to redo my presentation to the conference, and THAT&#8217;s due tomorrow afternoon.\u00a0 Hence I have to spend the rest of the evening working on it and will have no time to put up conference posts tonight.<\/p>\n<p>But, as I said in my <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=622\">earlier post<\/a> on the subject, I would LOVE to be wrong on this and it looks like I may have been.\u00a0 I certainly hope so.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hate it when I&#8217;m wrong, and I think I might have been wrong about the Space Elevator and Solar Power Satellites (SPS).\u00a0 I&#8217;ve had some &#8216;really smart people&#8217; look over the calculations I put on my blog last year, and I think they&#8217;ve found a significant mistake.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve got some more checking to do, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}