Space Junk Crisis: Time to Bring in the Lasers
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/10/space-junk-laser/?hpt=hp_bn11
I agree that politically this is a tough sell as it really is nothing more than a civilian application of Reagan’s famous Star Wars technology. However, this is a very real problem that needs some sort of real solution and this appears to be a quite viable one, though not trivial.