SPS and Power Lines from the Moon

Submitted for your amusement.

My voice alone was insufficient to get them to change the FAQ.

This is from a leading renewable energy advocacy group's FAQ

Try and picture what this would look like

http://solstice.crest.org/solar/sola...solaronthemoon

Selected Quotes:

Why don't we build a solar plant on the
moon and beam the energy back to Earth?

. . In addition, with the rotation of
the moon and the earth as they are, the
transmission cables would quickly become
terribly tangled.

.. . . Furthermore since most industrialized
countries experience power losses of about
10% between the generating plant and the
customer, which is only at most in the
hundreds of kilometers, there is no way the
energy would be still coursing through the
transmission cables after the 384,400
kilometers it would have to travel from the
moon to the earth.

TangoMan

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:22:12 GMT, in a place far, far away, "TangoMan"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Submitted for your amusement.

My voice alone was insufficient to get them to change the FAQ.

This is from a leading renewable energy advocacy group's FAQ

Try and picture what this would look like

http://solstice.crest.org/solar/sola...solaronthemoon

I've commented.

http://www.interglobal.org/weblog/ar...57.html#003057

Thanks for the tip

--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org

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On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:22:12 GMT, in a place far, far away, "TangoMan"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Submitted for your amusement.

My voice alone was insufficient to get them to change the FAQ.

This is from a leading renewable energy advocacy group's FAQ

Try and picture what this would look like

http://solstice.crest.org/solar/sola...solaronthemoon

I've commented.

http://www.interglobal.org/weblog/ar...57.html#003057

Thanks for the tip


Here's another, though a bit dated, shows political fanatacism trumping
reasoned discourse and common sense. If you write to correct them you're a
pal of TransOrbital.

http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=9443

Summary: TransOrbital's mission to the moon will destabilze the moon's orbit
and cause havoc on Earth. Bush and his evil minions have sold the moon to
his crony supporters.

Some guy writes in to rebut these outlandish claims, and the editor,
responds with the "bull**** baffles brains" strategem.

Sad to think that this kind of "intelligence" is what fires up the masses on
both sides of the political spectrum.


TangoMan

Here are the three pertinent articles. The Democrats.com site isn't
thoroughly indexed, so to verify their presence on the Democrats.com site
you'll have to pull keyowrds from these articles and input them into the
search field. I thought I'd just save you the trouble by adding the
following addendum.

While Nation Looks the Other Way on 9/11 Anniversary, Bush Gives
Moon to Private Corporation for 'Industrial Development'

Like all the other international laws, Bush is now ignoring those
pertaining to space. As America is distracted by 9/11 remembrances
and warnings of new threats, His Heinous has turned the moon over to
a private, for-profit corporation called TransOrbital that has a far-
reaching, frigthening agenda for the corporate domination of space.
All TransOrbital had to do was promise not to contaminate and
pollute the moon - yeah, right. That's what the oil companies say
about ANWR. There was no Congressional vote - not even any
consultation. Bush simply acted as if the moon were his to give
away. The TransOrbital venture could be disastrous for the globe -
no scientist today could predict yet how adding mass to the moon via
human infrastructure or removing mass, via mining, will impact the
delicate gravitational interplay between Earth and its only
satellite. The moon belongs to all the people of the Earth - not to
George. W. Bush or his friends at TransOrbital.



TransOrbital Just Like Bush - Long on Grandiosity and Corporate
Schemes, Short on Real Science

The company that Bush turned the moon over to as its personal
corporate playground is a chip off the old Blockhead. Check out this
home page: http://www.transorbital.net/index.html - notice the ad at
the top of the page, where the company brags that it will make it
possible to display commercial messages on the surface of the moon.
Now check this site out for the Artemis Society - the group that is
behind TransOrbital. It reminds us of those rghtwing front sites
that lead to multiple front sites and nothing is what it seems.
You'll notice that their web host calls itself the "Illuminati" and
is based in Texas. How Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney can you get!? Here's
another one of their "subsites": Project Leto, a moon tourism outfit
based in Las Vegas to attract the glitzy crowd.



U.S. Military Control of Space from the Moon: The Real Plan behind
TransOrbital's Permission to 'Develop' the Moon?

Everyone by now knows with painful clarity that the Bush
administration does not do a single thing without having something
in it for them, and usually something big and juicy. Now put two and
two together: Bush gives a wacko commercial company with a scheme
called the Artemis Project the green light to be the first to
commandeer the moon, commercially - that means patents and legal
privilege of a sweeping and unprecedented nature. Now add to that
the USS Space Command's long range plan - military control of space.
It doesn't take more than two neurons to figure out that once the
Artemis Project gets its foot in the lunar door, the "state-
sponsored" construction of a military space base will follow.

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 23:12:36 GMT, in a place far, far away, "TangoMan"
made the phosphor on my monitor glow
in such a way as to indicate that:

Here's another, though a bit dated, shows political fanatacism trumping
reasoned discourse and common sense. If you write to correct them you're a
pal of TransOrbital.

http://democrats.com/view.cfm?id=9443

Yes, I remember that one. It was hilarious.

--
simberg.interglobal.org * 310 372-7963 (CA) 307 739-1296 (Jackson Hole)
interglobal space lines * 307 733-1715 (Fax) http://www.interglobal.org

"Extraordinary launch vehicles require extraordinary markets..."
Swap the first . and @ and throw out the ".trash" to email me.
Here's my email address for autospammers:

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:22:12 GMT, "TangoMan"
wrote:

Submitted for your amusement.

My voice alone was insufficient to get them to change the FAQ.

This is from a leading renewable energy advocacy group's FAQ

Try and picture what this would look like

http://solstice.crest.org/solar/sola...solaronthemoon

Selected Quotes:

Why don't we build a solar plant on the
moon and beam the energy back to Earth?

. . In addition, with the rotation of
the moon and the earth as they are, the
transmission cables would quickly become
terribly tangled.

. . . Furthermore since most industrialized
countries experience power losses of about
10% between the generating plant and the
customer, which is only at most in the
hundreds of kilometers, there is no way the
energy would be still coursing through the
transmission cables after the 384,400
kilometers it would have to travel from the
moon to the earth.


Not to mention the noise the takeup reel would make as cable was paid out
and reeled in due to the constantly changing Earth-Moon distance. ;-)

Was this FAQ posted in April?

Chris W.