If we could power such an elevator with solar energy, we could simply rise up into space for a fraction of the cost of a trip by rocket or shuttle.

如果我们能利用太阳能为这样的电梯提供动力，我们只需花费乘坐火箭或航天飞机旅行费用的一小部分就能进入太空。

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His food would be cooked on a rocket stove made from two old catering tins, and he would wash in a solar shower essentially a black plastic bag suspended from a tree, and warmed by the sun.

他在那个用两块马口铁桶做的火箭柴炉上烧火做饭，如果天晴太阳高照，还能靠挂在树上的那个黑塑料袋里搞点热乎水洗洗澡。

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The idea that solar energy will have to wait for a breakthrough to reach grid parity is "crap," he says. He adds: "We're not talking about rocket science. We're talking basic engineering.

他接着说：“太阳能要达到市电同价不得不等待一个突破，这是一个赌注”，“我们在谈论的不是有关火箭的科学，我们在探讨的是基础工程。”

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The satellite - which had been intended to study the effects of climate change - should have separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels some nine minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 302km.

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Even the shuttle will live on, in some sense, since the Space Launch System the unromantic name of the beefy rocket needed to loft astronauts and cargoes into high orbits or farther into the solar system will be built partly from recycled shuttle parts in an effort to save money and use familiar technology.

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