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So what next for manned flight then?
Over on the Shuttle group they brought up maybe making solar power
satellites. I cannot see how this can work. It would need some new technology surely to make power transmission through the atmosphere work efficiently. I can see it now, sats wired up to the north pole via long cables to geosynchronous orbit... not... Or lasers frying the atmosphere so much global warming would accelerates. Brian -- Brian Gaff - Note:- In order to reduce spam, any email without 'Brian Gaff' in the display name may be lost. Blind user, so no pictures please! |
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So what next for manned flight then?
"Brian Gaff" wrote:
Over on the Shuttle group they brought up maybe making solar power satellites. I cannot see how this can work. It would need some new technology surely to make power transmission through the atmosphere work efficiently. It wouldn't. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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So what next for manned flight then?
On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:00:57 GMT, "Brian Gaff"
wrote: I can see it now, sats wired up to the north pole via long cables to geosynchronous orbit... not... Brian LOL! Last I heard, folks were considering microwave transmission to the ground array. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectenna That link should get you started. Tom |
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So what next for manned flight then?
"Derek Lyons" wrote in message
... "Brian Gaff" wrote: Over on the Shuttle group they brought up maybe making solar power satellites. I cannot see how this can work. It would need some new technology surely to make power transmission through the atmosphere work efficiently. It wouldn't. Careful Derek, with answers like that folks may mistake you for Rand. As other posters have mentioned, microwaves have been tested and considered and are the current plan. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL -- Greg Moore SQL Server DBA Consulting Remote and Onsite available! Email: sql (at) greenms.com http://www.greenms.com/sqlserver.html |
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