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Solar Power Satellite Concept
"William Mook" wrote in message
news:8721bbd7-246d-4764- ... 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. What's keeping "instead" from creating free markets? IMO, it's not a choice of "this" or "that" technology - it's not even about creating cheaper forms of energy with replacement "solar" (although Mook's cell industry expansion using frequencies beamed into collectors seems plausible - Most space enthusiasts talk about freeing up the market in order to allow competition, and thus expansion of the free markets into space, and IMHO the best incentive to "go orbital" would be for cheap and abundant energy - Mook and I, at least agree on this. : 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. Who's to say that China or any other "anti-capitalist" regime won't bank on the prospect that it won't take too much for those rascally republicans to convert your "mirror laser" to star wars technology? In that case, we'd have an open door policy for the military to immediately slate the weapon potential to backup technology. In that case, it won't ever get funded... : "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." Sounds great on paper, but do we need a demonstration that only the rich can afford? Naah, G.E. et al. have already been bought off by the cronies in Washington... : http://www.freshpatents.com/Solar-li...d-cooling-meth... It's all in the lift technology that gets it there to make it more affordable.... The satellite consists of a 5.2 km diameter inflatable concentrator. This concentrator focuses sunlight on to a 125 m diameter CPV/E 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 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. I had a relative who worked for a company that was interested in subbing the building of a gas plant and shipping port near Bhopal, India, about 10 years ago. The idea could have generated billions of dollars profit for the nation's economy if started on time. However, the different governmental entities over there all had to agree together how the project was going to be completed, and nothing was ever accomplished, mainly because there was a general hatred for free market entrepreneurialism. If a project like this were to become part of their culture over there, it would have to become entirely owned by the government, which is ludicrous to say the least. Even *their* government has no business controlling what is supposed to create "the most energy relief for the most people". Those in their government would take it for themselves, and tensions throughout India and Pakistan would continue to escalate. : Space Solar Power can charge whatever they need to . : charge. They don't have to compete with anyone. Makes life a whole lot easier for those in complete control of the outcome. American "Man should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot." - N. Machiavelli |
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Solar Power Satellite Concept
In article 8721bbd7-246d-4764-a195-6053feea0d06
@d8g2000yqf.googlegroups.com, says... 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. LOLZ. Thanks for making my day. The retractable wing ET derived stage looks to be completely unworkable. How in the heck are those wings supposed to fold into the LH2 tank and the intertank? You've got a horrible interferance problem here, unless you're using sci-fi Transformers technology. Jeff -- The only decision you'll have to make is Who goes in after the snake in the morning? |
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On 8/9/2010 5:53 AM, Jeff Findley wrote:
LOLZ. Thanks for making my day. The retractable wing ET derived stage looks to be completely unworkable. How in the heck are those wings supposed to fold into the LH2 tank and the intertank? You've got a horrible interferance problem here, unless you're using sci-fi Transformers technology. This is about the only way I saw to do that folding wing concept that made any sense: http://www.buran.ru/htm/strbaik.htm The wing pivots ninety degrees at its midpoint to lie atop the booster tankage:http://www.russianspaceweb.com/baikal.html Simple, and no internal tankage volume taken up by the wing in its retracted position. Okay, so maybe the thing does look like a winged penis...advertising space on it could be sold to advertise condoms or something. pat |
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On 8/9/2010 1:35 PM, Jeff Findley wrote:
I swear this method was used on a cool Estes boost glider. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/EST-Scissor-wi.../dp/B0007U9MES That's why that thing looked familiar! Estes should have sued them. Pat |
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tatelephone, says... On 8/9/2010 1:35 PM, Jeff Findley wrote: I swear this method was used on a cool Estes boost glider. Here it is: http://www.amazon.com/EST-Scissor-wi.../dp/B0007U9MES That's why that thing looked familiar! Estes should have sued them. LOL. Jeff -- The only decision you'll have to make is Who goes in after the snake in the morning? |
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On 8/11/2010 5:20 AM, Jeff Findley wrote:
http://www.amazon.com/EST-Scissor-wi.../dp/B0007U9MES That's why that thing looked familiar! Estes should have sued them. LOL. I actually checked the patents to see if Estes had patented the design, but couldn't find any patent for that particular rocket. Pat |
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On Aug 7, 5:44*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)"
wrote: Mook simply wears out keyboards. I go away for a few years, check back in and what do I see... the same crackpots touting thier undeniable genius. Sigh. |
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On Aug 15, 10:10*pm, "
wrote: On Aug 7, 5:44*pm, "Greg D. Moore \(Strider\)" wrote: Mook simply wears out keyboards. I go away for a few years, check back in and what do I see... the same crackpots touting thier undeniable genius. Sigh. And yet still you have no genius whatsoever. Go figure. ~ BG |
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On Aug 7, 7:08*pm, Brad Guth wrote:
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 Jim, I wasn't asked to present anything. If I were asked, I would certainly have presented something. Brad, as usual, what you say makes no sense on so many levels, its useless to respond to what you think you said. I will say however, most large container ships and tankers top 100,000 tons. My External Tank derived RLV lifts 695 tons into LEO. That's not extremely large by any stretch of the imagination. It is just large enough to get the job done economically. The $44 billion program I have outlined elsewhere will return a value of $275 billion the day it is switched on by selling energy at $0.06 per kWh anywhere on the world. |
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