Powersat Audiobook
Powersat Audiobook
- Stefan Rudnicki
- Blackstone Audiobooks
- 2011-10-21
- 13 h 35 min
Summary:
Two hundred thousand feet up, things move horribly incorrect. An experimental low-orbit spaceplane breaks up on reentry, dropping to earth more than a trail hundreds of kilometers lengthy. And in its wake is the beginning of the most important objective in the annals of space.
America requirements energy, and Dan Randolph is determined to provide it to them. He dreams of an array of geosynchronous powersats, satellites that collect solar energy and beam it to generators on Earth, freeing America from its dependence on fossil about Powersat fuels and breaking the energy of the oil cartels forever. However the wreck from the spaceplane offers left his firm, Astro Manufacturing, in the edge of personal bankruptcy.
Worse, Dan discovers which the plane worked perfectly right up until the moment that saboteurs knocked it from the sky. And whoever brought it down is definitely willing-and able-to kill again to keep Astro grounded.
Now Dan has to thread a dangerous maze. The visible threats are bad enough: Rival companies need it him out and take control of his dreams. His previous lover wants to co-opt his unlimited-energy idea as a advertising campaign plank for the candidate she’s grooming for the presidency. NASA and the FAA want to turn off his maverick company. And his lenders are inhaling and exhaling down his throat.
Making matters a lot more dangerous, a global organization of terrorists sees the powersat being a threat to their very own oil-based power. And they’ve figured out how to use it being a weapon within their battle against the Western world.
A sweeping mix of space, murder, romance, politics, secrets, and betrayal, Powersat will take you to the edge of space and the dawning of a new world.