Geoengineering via Moon relocation and China exploiting itsinnards / Brad Guth

I'm involved where that's appropriate Saul.

The nuclear salt water rocket is in process and I can't speak definitively about that yet, however, I can talk about some other interesting developments nearer term.

The New Zealand based company Rocket Lab has been acquired by US investors and is moving toward a 3 stage launcher of high efficiency operating in Auckland using carbon fibre composites.

I will launch a satellite network to give the world wireless broadband services, including digital financial services using bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0e2FJmXujA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAqaheHHIlQ

I am speaking with Campbell Aviation about building a Coanda Effect Aircraft similar to the Avro Y-1. Martin Jet Pack is building a small wearable VTOL vehicle which also has skills in this area.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4Lgv1L7VY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZEAZksq38k

Soon, I will announce a VTOL disk craft that has considerable range and be capable of ballistic boost and re-entry.

http://www.google.com/patents/US3062482

It will work independently as a turbojet powered aircraft or with a collection of booster elements to achieve spaceflight.

It makes use of micro-arrays of engines (larger than mems, easily constructed with 3D print techniques) with extremely low structure fraction using advanced composites throughout.

The airframe is similar to the Avro Y-1 airframe and contains LOX/Kero with a surplus of Kero for aerial maneuvering following re-entry.

For orbital operations the airframe is surrounded by six tanks, each feeding the aerospike engine in the tail of the airframe which lifts the whole array.

In rocket mode, the aerospike uses Rutherford engine based pump-sets to deliver up to 1.25 kg/sec of RP-1 and 3.20 kg/sec of LOX to each aerospike element. A collection of 52 pumps, 26 LOX and 26 RPI all operate to deliver 35.26 tonnes at lift off from 26 linear aerospike exhaust nozzles on the tail of each wing!

The Avro Y-1 shaped vehicle masses 450 kg and fully loaded carries 850 kg. It also carries 4,000 kg of propellant. 886 kg of Kero, 2614 kg of LOX for the rocket and 500 kg of kero for the jet.

Each of the six tanks masses 450 kg and carries 4,000 kg of propellant as 2,904.1 kg of LOX and 1,095.9 kg of Kerosene.

Four of the six tanks are drained during initial boost accelerating the vehicle to 2.15 km/sec. These tanks are dropped and the two remaining tanks are drained forming the second stage.

The second stage adds 3.14 km/sec bringing the total to 5.29 km/sec overall.. These two tanks are dropped and the remaining propellant is drawn from the disk vehicle itself.

The last stage attains a total speed of 10.58 km/sec.

Now, 1.28 km/sec is lost due to air drag and gravity losses. Thus, 9.3 km/sec velocity is attained at an altitude of 60 km.

This boosts the vehicle to a highly elliptical orbit that carries it 13,540 km altitude in 43 hours. It takes another 43 hours to fall back to Earth where it slows through aerobraking to subsonic speed. At that point, it re-enters the atmosphere, and the vehicle, its crew, and remaining kerosene, fly back to the launch centre using the high bypass jet engine.

Range = Velocity * (L/D) * Isp * LN(Mi/Mf)

After slowing to subsonic speeds, with the aerospike engine operated as the exhaust of a high bypass turbofan system, that draws air from the aircraft, and when operating at 277 m/sec air speed in the stratosphere, specific impulse of 6000 seconds is achieved. Combining with with a lift/drag of 20 at this speed, the range of the system is 24,837 km flown over an additional 25 hours period. (111 hours total)

Thus, regardless of where the vehicle lands, it is capable of returning to its base following re-entry.

A very special ride for two persons at a cost of $5 million each!

It takes another 48 hours after return of all parts and pieces to the launch centre to relaunch the system.

So, $520 million per year is generated per vehicle.

A fleet of three is being planned.

Removing the Kerosene tank, and equipping the vehicle with additional supplies, reduces the overall weight of the payload and take off weight, permits an increase to 11.72 km/sec - sufficient to project the payload beyond escape velocity!

This is sufficient delta vee to carry out a lunar free return trajectory over an 8 day period while retaining sufficient capacity for course corrections along the way.

This lunar jump vehicle will be made available once a month per vehicle so equipped, at a cost of $21.7 million per passenger, generating the same revenue per vehicle.

Efficient operation of the vehicle allows it to be placed into lunar orbit and returned.

A 600 kg automated drone consisting of 140 kg of inert mass and 129.2 kg of Kerosense and 330.8 kg of LOX will be placed in lunar orbit. This is met with a piloted system described. One of the two pilots transfer to the drone and makes their way down to the Lunar surface and back using this system..

One flight per month, with a crew person and a landing, is possible this requires two launches and serves only one person. 12 persons per year are landed on the moon in this way, and returned to Earth. Each flight costs $86..7 million, plus another $12 million for the vehicle.

The orbiter drone may also be configured to land 450 kg of supplies one way on the moon. This costs $43.3 million transport costs, $12.0 million for the vehicle, and whatever the payload processing costs.

For $200 million two people could arrange to stay on the moon for two weeks.. Which would be quite a honey moon!

A VTOL capable long-distance aerial vehicle based on this airframe will also be offered. This is attained by replacing the 3,500 kg of LOX/Kero propellant with 2,000 kg of Kerosene in addition to the 500 kg of Kerosene already on board and 1,500 kg of cargo. In this way we have a long-distance, VTOL cargo plane shipping things up to 20,000 km point to point anywhere on Earth.








On Friday, August 8, 2014 4:52:08 PM UTC+12, Saul Levy wrote:
ARE YOU OFFERING TO GO FIRST, MOOKIE?



Saul Levy





On Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:33:49 -0700 (PDT), wrote:



Yeah, I mispronounce it when I'm down there, so its no surprise I can't spell it! lol.



People often ask me why I think humanity can do all the things I imagine are possible to do? I received a video the other day which I found quite inspiring. Its a film that shaped my youth. So, I think this is where that undying faith in human ability comes from.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8RszOQwWGY



Kaiser's construction of the Liberty ships and the pocket aircraft carriers in World War 2 rank as one of the most remarkable achievements of humanity. A measure of what can be done when the will the know-how of a people are combined toward useful ends.



We can get out of our present predicament, reducing Earth's population without a single loss of life while at the same time preserving and enriching the biosphere here on Earth and enriching and empowering the life of every human being.



This is the promise of science, and has been the promise of science since the very beginning. Its times we all took this seriously and moved toward a more productive use of our time and talent going forward.