Dear Yousuf Khan:

On Saturday, March 11, 2017 at 1:58:40 PM UTC-7, Yousuf Khan wrote:
On 3/10/2017 9:37 AM, dlzc wrote:
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Where does it get its power from? Won't be solar panels...

And why not? Just scale up the number of solar panels to
the required level to get to 1 or 2 Tesla.

Don't need intense, if you can get big.

... which is not where you really want this
half-baked system. The particles this "magnetic
shield" is to protect you from, are not moving
at c. And Mars is still whipping around at a
good clip. The "wake" this system produces will
fall behind Mars, not *around* Mars. You'd need
to "drive" the object a little forward of the
stability point.

The solar winds aren't travelling at c, they're
only going between 300 - 750 km/s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_wind

So the "shield" will have to be WAY forward. About 43 minutes forward:
https://plus.google.com/+JonathanLan...ts/h4HBjVDkS74

David A. Smith