Re: Solar Sats For Real?

"nuny@xxxxxxx" <Alien8752@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:a81d2dfc-993a-4815-86b4-cc4bee227e8b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198977/

It depends on the performance of startup Solaren. They say they can
loft a working "self-assembling" SPS in four or five heavy-lift
launches (up to 25 tons each) but won't describe their "revolutionary"
technology very closely.

If it works, they say PG&E will be their first, but not only,
customer.

It also possibly explains this:

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/04/16/16greenwire-chamber-ads-target-energy-permitting-green-tap-10574.html

If Solaren's gig works we won't need much in the way of on-surface
power.

You trust them, don't you?

Mark L. Fergerson



I'll be looking for the environmental impact statement. :-)

In particular, I'd like to see the numbers for power transmitted and
power received. I.e. the transmission efficiency through the atmosphere.
ANY losses become a heat source.

http://www.phys.hawaii.edu/~anita/web/paperwork/currently%20organizing/Military%20EW%20%20Handbook%20Excerpt/rf_absor.pdf




.

Relevant Pages

  • Re: ....BUZZ Aldrin Launches New Space Solar Power Alliance.
    ... Note the Earth has a tilt to it, so at 22,300 miles, you're "above" or ... power would be cheap and I like living next to large open fields. ... With manyof expensive and polluting launches required to get ...
    (sci.space.history)
  • Re: U.S. Warns N. Korea: Better Not Launch
    ... If he launches, and it ... goes limp... ... N Korea looks like the 3rd world joke they are; ... power by just letting it sit where it is as it is. ...
    (rec.sport.pro-wrestling)
  • Re: forests on orbit
    ... for the desalination of sea water to be provoded by solar power, ... To move a metric ton to Earth orbit most energy efficiently from the ... asteroid belt requires that 1.72 tons of propellant be ejected at 8 km/ ... equivalent to less than 7,000 watts of continuous power. ...
    (sci.space.policy)
  • Re: Question for William Mook
    ... any connection to AC power whatsoever, so I am not sure where a pulse ... Sold at a cost of $0.04 per kWh over 20 years - the face ... tons of coal per year. ... So now Mook is going off on the Sulfur cycle. ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)
  • Re: Honda Fcx Clarity First Hydrogen Car
    ... burning 11 billion tons of carbon to release heat at a rate of 17 ... trillion watts on average to power industry. ... temperature nuclear reactors to do the job. ... cost of $3 per barrel. ...
    (sci.energy.hydrogen)
Loading