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Old May 5th 16, 01:39 AM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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Default Atmospheric humidity for water production.

Swarms of self replicating machine cells provide the answer to the problem of environmental degradation.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77588930/Brand-New-World

Self replicating machine cells that absorb sunlight and use the energy to run reverse osmosis filters to produce fresh water from sunlight far more efficiently than waiting for nature to evaporate it. It takes only 5.5 kWh to purify a cubic meter seawater via reverse osmosis far less energy than needed to evaporate it.

Take a map of australia, programmed into each machine cell, to deliver water a cc at a time, to where its needed when its needed. Use the ability to transport water to avoid flooding.

There are 7.69 trillion square meters of land area in Australia and it receives 165 mm a year on average, though some places receive up to 3,000 mm per year.

http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/facts.html

This means that 1.27 trillion cubic meters of rainfall land on Australia.

To collect enough fresh water from the ocean to double this total to 330 mm using solar powered machine cells mean that 0.3% of the sunlight falling on a region 1000 km in diameter located in the Great Australian Bight south of the island, out of the way of shipping and air travel, is intercepted near the ocean's surface, and fresh water made from sea water is stored inside the machine cell and when full, the cell navigates with quadrillions of others, to points throughout Australia, releasing an additional 165 mm throughout the year - moderating droughts.

Empty of water systems can pick up excess water in one region and shift surplus water from flooded areas to drier areas automatically as well.

A more ambitious programme would over a few years increase average rainfall to 2400 mm per year, turning the entire continent into a lush region. Flooding is avoided by distributing the rain fall, and redistributing the natural rain fall, which is only secondary at this level.

As the capacity of the biosphere to absorb moisture increases season by season, the incidence of flooding is reduced, despite the increasing rainfall averages.

Food production is increased dramatically, turning Australia into the bread basket of the world.

To sustain 2400 mm throughout the Australian continent requires 18.48 trillion cubic meters of fresh water, which requires 11.59 trillion watts average power, and 34.78 trillion watts peak power from solar sources. This is collected by capturing 4.4% of the sunlight falling on a 1000 km diameter disk located South of Australia in the Great Australian Bight.

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Old May 5th 16, 04:02 PM posted to sci.space.policy
William Mook[_2_]
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Default Atmospheric humidity for water production.

On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 12:39:53 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
Swarms of self replicating machine cells provide the answer to the problem of environmental degradation.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/77588930/Brand-New-World

Self replicating machine cells that absorb sunlight and use the energy to run reverse osmosis filters to produce fresh water from sunlight far more efficiently than waiting for nature to evaporate it. It takes only 5.5 kWh to purify a cubic meter seawater via reverse osmosis far less energy than needed to evaporate it.

Take a map of australia, programmed into each machine cell, to deliver water a cc at a time, to where its needed when its needed. Use the ability to transport water to avoid flooding.

There are 7.69 trillion square meters of land area in Australia and it receives 165 mm a year on average, though some places receive up to 3,000 mm per year.

http://www.australiatravelsearch.com.au/trc/facts.html

This means that 1.27 trillion cubic meters of rainfall land on Australia.

To collect enough fresh water from the ocean to double this total to 330 mm using solar powered machine cells mean that 0.3% of the sunlight falling on a region 1000 km in diameter located in the Great Australian Bight south of the island, out of the way of shipping and air travel, is intercepted near the ocean's surface, and fresh water made from sea water is stored inside the machine cell and when full, the cell navigates with quadrillions of others, to points throughout Australia, releasing an additional 165 mm throughout the year - moderating droughts.

Empty of water systems can pick up excess water in one region and shift surplus water from flooded areas to drier areas automatically as well.

A more ambitious programme would over a few years increase average rainfall to 2400 mm per year, turning the entire continent into a lush region. Flooding is avoided by distributing the rain fall, and redistributing the natural rain fall, which is only secondary at this level.

As the capacity of the biosphere to absorb moisture increases season by season, the incidence of flooding is reduced, despite the increasing rainfall averages.

Food production is increased dramatically, turning Australia into the bread basket of the world.

To sustain 2400 mm throughout the Australian continent requires 18.48 trillion cubic meters of fresh water, which requires 11.59 trillion watts average power, and 34.78 trillion watts peak power from solar sources. This is collected by capturing 4.4% of the sunlight falling on a 1000 km diameter disk located South of Australia in the Great Australian Bight.


Australia transformed with adequate infrastructure and adequate rain fall, and a restored ecology, would support 1,863 million people at the same density as Malibu, 2,586.7 million people at the same density as Japan, 96,652.7 million people at the same density as Monaco.

With machine cells that operate together very much like the Thermian transporter pod of Galaxy Quest haha, people would travel anywhere they like, on Earth or off.

People would naturally gravitate toward Australia, and from there, move off world.

The moon is an easy target. Mars a challenging one with chemical propellants derived from solar powered self replicating machinery of the first type. Ceres beyond that! Targets beyond the moon require improved propulsion, or suspended animation, or both.

The transformation of the Martian desert to something habitable involves making plastics from the planet's atmosphere, using local water supplies as a catalyst and hydrogen source as well as a source of oxygen;

18 H2O + energy -- 18 H2 + 9 O2
6 CO2 + 24 H2 -- 6 CH4 + 6 H2O
6 CH4 + energy -- 6 CH2* +6 H2

The CH2* polymer has compressed beneath it all the nitrogen found on Mars, into a column only 5 meters (16.4 ft) tall.

There is enough nitrogen in Mars' atmosphere and we can make enough oxygen, to transform the surface of Mars to a terrestrial analogue in a year using this first generation solar powered self-replicating machine cell technology.

At 5,000 gees (49,033 m/s/s) it takes only 102.6 milliseconds to accelerate to Mars' escape velocity of 5.03 km/sec over a distance of 51.6 mm. About 2 inches. The bore of the electrostatic barrel that achieves this need be no bigger than the diameter of the machine cells. A machine cell 0.23 mm in diameter, need not have a bore larger than 0.25 mm. A hexagonal close packed array of muzzles contain 6.15 million muzzles per square meter and can launch 60.0 million machine cells to an accurate speed and trajectory (think of moving the muzzles the same way a digital light projector (DLP) moves mirrors to create an accurate image on a wall). At 14 micrograms per projected cell, we can project 840 grams per second per square meter. 26.5 metric tons per square meter of projector per year. The power required is 10..62 MW per square meter. The area of solar collectors on the Martian surface to support each square meter of projector on the Martian surface is 72,122 square meters. So, 2,009 sq km of projector area may be supported on Mars which gives the planet an ability to project 53.26 billion metric tons per year off world. Since it takes 15 MJ per kg to process a kg of Martian soil into machine cells, and it takes 12.65 MJ per kg to project a kg of machine cells off world on Mars, actual rate of projection 28.9 billion metric tons per Earth year. This gravity well penalty is a good argument to use this technology on the asteroids and the moons of Mars. However, we can use it on Mars' surface as well.

This ability to convert and project matter in this way allows us to Make of Mars, anything we like in space. The Stanford Torus, Bermanl sphere, and O'Neill colony, masses about 10 tons per square meter, at that specific density we can build 2,890 sq km of space stations per Earth year. Enough to house 28.9 million people per year at half the density of Monaco. We can also build large fresnel lenses, large solar pumped lasers, and other interesting products in space as well.

My friend the rainbow vested physicist, Robert Forward, proposed building big fresnel lenses and big solar pumped lasers in space in 1983 using the research results of O'Meara based on an internal study done in 1976 and declassified five years later.

Here's an early article completed in 1984;

http://www.lunarsail.com/LightSail/rit-1.pdf

The engineering data in this document is good. A 1000 km diameter lens (or sail) masses 78,500 metric tons. This is a specific mass of 10 tons per square KILOMETER! About a milion times the area of a space colony of the same mass.

Now, the point is, Mars' temperature.

Its that way because the amount of heat energy from the sun divided by the amount of area of its surface, translates through the operation of Stephan Boltzman, to a specific surface temperature - with some minor quibble about atmospheric blanketing of CO2. As we process the CO2 and H2O into valued hydrocarbon products, to support terrestrial conditions at the surface, the temperature will fall. This means that to maintain balmy Earthlike conditions across the surface of Mars, we must direct more sunlight on to the surface.

Now at Earth the specific energy of sunlight is 1368 Watts/m2. At Mars which is 1.524x farther away, this falls to 589 Watts/m2. A factor of 2.322 times (1.524 squared). To raise the temperature of Mars require that we raise the average level of insolation on Mars to 'Earth normal' which means that we intercept 1.322x the sunlight now missing Mars and add it to the sunlight currently falling on Mars.

This means we build an annulus at Mars-Sol Lagrange Point One (L1) that's 1..524x the diameter of Mars, with a hole in the center the diameter of Mars. Now Mars' diameter is 6,781.3 km. And 1.524x this diameter is 10,334.7 km. So, taking the area of a circle the larger diameter and subtracting the smaller diameter circle from it gives us the area of the Fresnel lens needed at L1 to focus sunlight on to Mars so that the Martian disk is illuminated to the level of Earth. That's 191,071,647.6 sq km and 1.91 billion tons of material. At 28.9 billion metric tons per Earth year, it takes 24.1 days to build the concentrator, assuming we don't see any increase in solar intensity over the period. If we are smart and build our ring inward from the larger diameter, we will see an increase in solar intensity over the period of finish our work in less than three weeks!

Doing this first before processing the atmosphere and the balance of Mars makes sense since it increases the efficiency of the balance of the work. It also allows us to extract materials that are highly valued. For example, at 6.5 ppb 1.91 billion tons of material being processed has the opportunity to extract over 12.3 tonnes of gold! While the $508.6 million of gold may seem minor compared to transforming an entire world, we must remember that as 'hot money' in a fractional reserve banking system, backed by real physical assets of an entire world, we can arrange $2.5 trillion to $3.0 trillion in immediate loan activity on Earth, to get the ball rolling by loaning funds to folks to buy the products we're making. This self inflating process can work rather rapidly to improve living standards for humanity. Without the resources to back up these expectations, this leads to our present bubble economy. However, with an entire planet to back it up, we can presell the entire planet to all on Earth based on the spec cities built on Earth and the Moon and the spec cities built on Mars at the outset using variants of the technology I've described in these posts, and offering joy rides to anywhere on Earth and to the Moon, to familiarise prospects with the process of going to Mars.

Ceres and the major asteroids are next, and here we build the Fresnel lenses larger to create a super luminous effect that allows us to process the entire body of Ceres and the other asteroids into significant space stations called Bishop Rings, in periods that are short by human standards.

Large laser arrays built near the solar surface that beam energy across the solar system is next. These powerful lasers propel photonic thrusters that make highly efficient transport at constant gee between worlds a reality. Beaming powerful lasers to beyond 600 AU from Sol, and reflecting the light back around the solar system, takes advantage of the gravity lensing of the Sun to focus tremendous energy accurately vast distances. Allowing us, with suspended animation and constant one gee boost, to travel to any of the stars within 150 light years of Earth. For the more adventurous, even farther journeys are possible. When we reach these distant ports of call, we will use the same technologies described here, to work our will upon these distant worlds.

Laser energy has been converted to positrons. Positrons have been stored as a Bose Einstein condensate in 'smart' crystals at densities exceeding that of iron. The crystals themselves are organised aerogels and have very small densities. The structure to weight ratio of the photon rocket system, is 10,000 to 1. Sufficient to achieve 0.99999998c. At speed 5,000 light years is traversed for every year on board.

A system that's accelerated at one gee with a laser, that absorbs that laser energy to efficiently create positronium and store it on board, reuses that energy to slow this ship from it's final speed.

A more reasonable speed is 0.9998c. Here 50 light years are traversed for every year on board. Three years traverses 150 light years. At 10 tons per person a total of 90 tons of Ps is required to be made and stored on board. A 10 ton ship has a Ps tank that in spherical form is 1737 mm in diameter.

Photonic thrusters, which have already been demonstrated in the lab, operate at intensities of light that exceed the intensity of light at the solar surface. As technology advances, it is reasonable to suppose that our machine cell technology will advance to operate on or near the solar surface as well. This will permit harvesting nearly all the 4 million tons of massenergy per secon and 1 milion tons of solar wind per second, from the Sun's surface.

This is self replicating machine cells of the second type.

This gives us mastery over the nearby stars.

Once we are spread among the stars and have their entire energy at our disposal, we can begin to experiment with colliding shaped macroscopic objects, made of iron-56, to form black holes dusts. These particles smaller than the nuclei of atoms, according to present theory, should be able to interact to efficiently tap the zero point energy of the cosmos, warp space and time to permit travel through time, if you can believe that, and allow us to accelerate at extremely high values across the cosmos, dispensing with the need for suspended animation. The ability to create a time tunnel of the type described by Frank Tipler back in the 1970s, with the ability to accelerate at 1100 gees or more, means that we can create a time tunnel at Earth, zip off to Andromeda and arrive one week later, but 2 million years have passed on Earth, and then zip back, with only 1 week pssing aboard ship, to find our time tunnel 4 million years later, and use it to travel back in time 4 million years and arrive 2 weeks after we left. We also have the advantage of sending signals through time, and labeling them so we can make sense of the packets, providing a 'real time' communications link with the moving reference frame and the Earth reference frame. There is an added benefit of an operating time tunnel that can communicate across 4 million years of time on Earth. Allowing us to visit the distant future, and those in the distant future to visit their distant past.

http://www.geocities.ws/theophysics/...-cylinders.pdf

This is self replicating machinery of the third type. This gives us mastery of the cosmos.

A lot closer than Andromeda, and a lot more interesting than a 4 million year rip in time, are the supermassive black holes at the centers of our galaxies. These have been around for at least 10 billion years, and will likely be around for trillions of more years. If present theory is correct, these are trillion year tears in time, and the technology we just described, gives us access to it!

So, a time portal orbiting outside the orbit of Sedna, is only a minor time transformer compared to the large time transformer at the galactic center. This lets us travel billions of light years into space, and billions of years into time, given relativity, using the technology described here.

At this point we can say that technology has fulfilled its promise to humanity, allowing us to move throughout and transform the cosmos at will.

We have not however, looked at dangers, limits, and barriers to unfettered expansion along the lines described. How these capacities interact with our human psychology and the emergent properties created, is a more difficult task to analyse than the mere doing of these things.







 




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