ya know, it's a start. It's just accounting for the energy required for overcoming the binding energy, and shifting the material to different orbits, in order to get a sense of the scale involved. He said in the article there would be significant engineering challenges, yet to be worked out, obviously.
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ya know, it's a start. It's just accounting for the energy required for overcoming the binding energy, and shifting the material to different orbits, in order to get a sense of the scale involved. He said in the article there would be significant engineering challenges, yet to be worked out, obviously.