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Old 18-October-2007, 02:05 AM
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Apparently not. Tdvance's post sounded to me like a proposed solution to counter the problem that eburacum45 pointed out.
The asteroid-go-round (AGR) would not solve the problem of delta-v (change in velocity) needed to match the speed of the hydrogen carrier to the speed of the AGR. Even if the AGR gets very close to Jupiter, it's still whipping by at a tremendous speed. If the hydrogen container is somehow lifted to orbital hight, it's still left unmoving in the path of the oncoming AGR and wham! oops, there goes all your hard work. To accelerate a large mass of hydrogen (or anything) enough to move it away from Jupiter and toward somewhere else, whether it's carried on an AGR or not, still requires the same amount of energy.
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