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X PRIZE founder Peter Diamandis says that the cost of getting to orbit could be brought down considerably if you could perfect beamed propulsion, which could be produced relatively cheaply on Earth: But in the near term, I’m betting on a technology, which is very doable today.  In fact, I’m in the middle of talking with a number of benefactors about creating an X Prize around this concept.  It’s called beamed power […]