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Solar Power Satellite Concept
I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into
orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. The satellite consists of a 5.2 km diameter inflatable concentrator. This concentrator focuses sunlight on to a 125 m diameter CPV/Emitter array. This array beams IR laser energy at 900 nm to 8,000 receivers across the visible face of the Earth. Each beam generates 1.25 MW at the 22 m diameter receiver using silicon within a water filled lens array. A total of 10,000 MW. http://www.scribd.com/doc/35439593/S...-Satellite-GEO At $0.042 per kWh each satellite generates $300 million per month in revenues. Four satellites, including the launcher fleet and operations to place four satellites cost less than $14.4 billion - the annual income of four satellites on GEO. Multiple RS-68 pump sets at the base of each ET derived airframe feed an aerospike engine at the base of each airframe - which work together in groups of 7 to create a multi-stage launcher that places the satellite on orbit. The satellite deploys on LEO and uses solar powered ion engines - which give it 30 years of station keeping capability - to add 4.33 km/ sec to its velocity to take up an orbit at GEO. There the station beams power to 8,000 stationary receivers across the visible face of the Earth. http://www.scribd.com/doc/31261680/Etdhlrlv-Addendum http://www.scribd.com/doc/30943696/ETDHLRLV |
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William Mook wrote:
I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. What kind of reception did it receive when you presented it at this year's International Space Development Conference/Space Investment Summit in Chicago this past May? They had a two day Space Solar Power Symposium this year. Jim Davis |
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On Aug 7, 2:33*am, Jim Davis wrote:
William Mook wrote: I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. What kind of reception did it receive when you presented it at this year's International Space Development Conference/Space Investment Summit in Chicago this past May? They had a two day Space Solar Power Symposium this year. Jim Davis I didn't present. |
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William Mook wrote:
What kind of reception did it receive when you presented it at this year's International Space Development Conference/Space Investment Summit in Chicago this past May? They had a two day Space Solar Power Symposium this year. I didn't present. Any particular reason why not? Surely you would have received much more useful feedback there than you could expect here? Jim Davis |
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William Mook wrote:
I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. Really? Where is the hardware? Oh that's right. That's "I've designed on paper." We've been done this road before Mook. Bend metal, get someone to bend metal or go away. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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On Aug 7, 9:59*am, Jim Davis wrote:
William Mook wrote: What kind of reception did it receive when you presented it at this year's International Space Development Conference/Space Investment Summit in Chicago this past May? They had a two day Space Solar Power Symposium this year. I didn't present. Any particular reason why not? Surely you would have received much more useful feedback there than you could expect here? Jim Davis Mook is only a good talker, not a team doer or much less an actual leader. His feedback needs are more intended as mind teasers and diversions than anything else. If I were running NASA/DARPA, I'm not sure if I could safely fit William Mook into any one of our think tanks, because he'd always insist upon running the whole show and doing everything extremely large. ~ BG |
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On Aug 7, 3:42*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: William Mook wrote: I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. Really? *Where is the hardware? Oh that's right. That's "I've designed on paper." We've been done this road before Mook. *Bend metal, get someone to bend metal or go away. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. I didn't know this Usenet/newsgroup was a certified shop-class for fly- by-rocket expertise. Where's your better rocket or satellite of bent metal? ~ BG |
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Brad Guth wrote:
On Aug 7, 3:42 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: William Mook wrote: I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. Really? Where is the hardware? Oh that's right. That's "I've designed on paper." We've been done this road before Mook. Bend metal, get someone to bend metal or go away. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. I didn't know this Usenet/newsgroup was a certified shop-class for fly- by-rocket expertise. Where's your better rocket or satellite of bent metal? When I claim to have developed one, I'll be more than willing to show it. Notice, I don't make those claims. There have been others here who HAVE made those claims and some have actually bent metal. Mook simply wears out keyboards. ~ BG -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. |
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On Aug 7, 7:44*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: Brad Guth wrote: On Aug 7, 3:42 pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: William Mook wrote: I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. Really? Where is the hardware? Oh that's right. That's "I've designed on paper." We've been done this road before Mook. Bend metal, get someone to bend metal or go away. -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. I didn't know this Usenet/newsgroup was a certified shop-class for fly- by-rocket expertise. *Where's your better rocket or satellite of bent metal? When I claim to have developed one, I'll be more than willing to show it. Notice, I don't make those claims. There have been others here who HAVE made those claims and some have actually bent metal. Mook simply wears out keyboards. *~ BG -- Greg Moore Ask me about lily, an RPI based CMC. I've done it, actually bent steel and aluminum on the huge Chicago- type metal presses in Houston @ Rawson Koenig, Inc, and changed dies, unjammed the punch/cutter of the mighty Salvagnini: http://www.salvagnini.com After getting one of these beasts aloft, how far would one or more of these kinds actually progress towards mass producing after an NEO'd refiner, or orbitally-based fabrication facility... (Guess I'll have to talk to somebody at U.S.Steel... ) American "All for one, one for all" - Dumas (1802 - 1870) |
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"William Mook" wrote in message ... I have developed a system that masses 600+ tonnes and is lofted into orbit by a reusable vehicle derived from our experience with the External Tank only. Instead of building a new heavy-lift, what needs to be researched is a solar powered laser power system. Then the mile size pv satellites wouldn't be needed, just a mirror a few hundred feet across. Also the mirror could be in geo, then laser to the power to low orbit relay stations that microwave it to the ground in the usual way. "Solar light pumped laser and cooling method" "Moreover, the solar light pumped laser is capable of being light weighted and efficiently reducing an entropy of the renewable energy." http://www.freshpatents.com/Solar-li...0080225912.php The satellite consists of a 5.2 km diameter inflatable concentrator. This concentrator focuses sunlight on to a 125 m diameter CPV/Emitter array. This array beams IR laser energy at 900 nm to 8,000 receivers across the visible face of the Earth. Each beam generates 1.25 MW at the 22 m diameter receiver using silicon within a water filled lens array. A total of 10,000 MW. http://www.scribd.com/doc/35439593/S...-Satellite-GEO At $0.042 per kWh each satellite generates $300 million per month in revenues. Four satellites, including the launcher fleet and operations Space Solar Power could fill markets that no other source of electricity can. They say the reason India still has to import food is a quarter of all their crops are ruined for a lack of refrigeration (electricity). Combine that with the incredibly ....small costs.. of the receiving equipment on the ground, then rural electrification and Space Solar Power are a marriage made in heaven. Same goes for disasters and military uses. Space Solar Power can charge whatever they need to charge. They don't have to compete with anyone. |
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