From: utzoo!decvax!cca!dietz.usc-cse@UDel-Relay@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: Relativistic Electron Power Transmission
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3401
Posted: Tue Sep 21 18:21:54 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 04:48:03 1982

  Electrons are a bad idea because of energy losses from synchrotron
radiation.  If the bending magnets are large enough this isn't a
problem (how large?).  I also worry about magnetic fields in the solar
wind and the lunar soil deflecting the beam.