A new space business

S1

Imagine a 38 foot tall cone with a 22 ft wide base. Hydrogen oxygen
powered, with a zero height aerospike engine, built in heat sheild at
the base. Spherical oxygen tank up front. Larger hydrogen tank
behind. Propellant feeding through a line down the center. A
toroidal space around the base, below the hydrogen tank, above the
aerospike nozzles, where 12 people sit in their own seat with their
own canopy facing outward with 180 degree view of the outside. Each
seat in its own cell that connects to a circular halway behind the
seat. The seat folds into the floor, in zero gee- making a small
cabin. There is is four foot wide column, with a dozen lockers
surrounding the propellant feed column. Each astronaut/passenger is
equipped with a mechanical counterpressure suit, that doubles as a
personal toilet - designed for long duration wearing and can survive a
re-entry.

The vehicle masses 50 tons loaded at launch. It carries 34 tons of
propellant,masses 8 tons empty, and carries 10 tons of useful
payload. Final velocity is 4.6 km/sec ideal - and it cost $20 million
to build. A fleet of three are built,and with NRE charges $100 million
for the fleet, and launch and training center in New Mexico.

It boosts at 3 gees straight up and flies to an altitude of 640 km -
then falls back to Earth for a soft touchdown and 14 minutes of
flight. A pilot, co-pilot, two helpers,and 8 paying passengers. One
ship from the fleet fly twice a week, with a 10 day turnaround after
each flight. The cost $125,000 per passenger. 4.4 gees are pulled on
the re-entry.

A typical flight consists of boost after all passengers and crews are
loaded, and after boost, there is a 11 minute period where the canopy
slides forward, and the acceleration couches extend out of the vehicle
for a space walk. Helpers assist passengers who wish to leave their
couches and go for a space walk tethere to the vehicle. The space walk
period lasts 5 minutes, and costs an extra $25,000. For an extra
$50,000 each space-walking passenger can navigate away from the
vehicle and execute a 'personal' re-entry and touchdown using their
own emergency chute. Passengers keep their suits, and professionally
made 2 hour videos describing their adventure from training to
touchdown.

$100 million per year is earned by the fleet of three vehicles and
crew and helper experience are gained - from 100 flights. Four
flights are promotional and PR sorts of flights done during Christmas
and New Year's week.

S2

A larger truncated cone, 54 feet tall, and with a 34 ft wide base,
built along the same lines as the stage described above, masses 30
tons empty carries 170 tons of propellant - and the 50 ton upper
stage. Built at a cost of $60 million each a fleet of three costs
$200 million - including NRE charges and infrastructure upgrades.

These vehicles can loft a modified 'cargo' stage to put 10 tons into
LEO, or can orbit 12 people, a crew of four and 8 passengers into
orbit. This vehicle can stay in space for up to two weeks and people
pay $1.25 million each to fly into orbit. Cargo costs $10 million to
loft into space, which includes insurance, or $10 million is earned
per flight - $1 billion is generated per year from this operation. A
single stage 40 passenger ballistic transport is also considered to
augment airliner services between points on Earth.

S3

A larger truncated cone, 93 feet tall, built along the same lines as
the previous two stages, masses 150 tons empty carries 850 tons of
propellant and the 250 tons of upper stages. Built at a cost of $240
million each a fleet of three costs $1,000 million - including NRE
charges and infrastructure upgrades.

These vehicles can loft a modified 'cargo' stage to put 50 tons into
LEO, or with a third cargo stage the system can put 10 tons into GEO
or 10 tons on a lunar free return trajectory, or 10 tons on an escape
trajectory - with return of the vehicle. Also, 12 people, consisting
of a crew of four and 8 passengers can be launched into a lunar free
return trajectory which includes several orbits of the moon before
returning to Earth. No moon landing. A single stage 300 passenger
ballistic transport is also considered to augment airliner services
between points on Earth - hourly flights between LA and NYC - lasting
12 minutes are maintained by a single vehicle. A militarized version
can deploy 240 fully armed troops anywhere in the world in minutes,
from US bases.

Cargo costs $100 million to loft into space which includes insurance,
or $12.5 million per passenger - for a two week journey around the
moon. $10 billion is generated per year from this operation. Special
costing arrangements are entered into for special ballistic transport
services.

S4

A larger truncated cone 156 feet tall, built along the same lines as
the previous three stages, masses 750 tons empty, carries 4,250 tons
of propellant and the 1,250 tons of upper stages. Built at a cost of
$960 million each, a fleet of three costs $3.5 billion - including NRE
charges and infrstructure upgrades.

These vehicles can loft a modified 'cargo' stage that puts 250 tons
into LEO, or with a third cargo stage, the system can put 50 tons into
GEO, or 50 tons on a lunar free return trajectory, or 50 tons on an
escape trajectory - with return of the vehicle.

Also, 12 people consisting of a crew of four and 8 passengers can be
launched toward the moon to land there and take off - which includes
up to 4 days on the lunar surface. Furthermore, 4 people, consisting
of all crew,can be launched to mars, aerobrake to land there, and take
off to return to Earth - which requires up to two years journey and
the use of solar panels to power the vehicle for long duration.

Cargo costs $500 million to loft into space which includes insurance,
or $62.5 million per passenger - for a two week journey to the moon,
including a 4 day stay on the lunar surface. The MMU used throughout
the early program is adapted for lunar travel by rocket belt up to 200
miles from the landing point. Mars travel is by special arrangement
and costs $2 billion for vehicle lease and operations. Up to $50
billion is earned per year from vehicle operations.

S5

A larger booster 3,750 tons empty carries 21,250 tons of propellant
and carries 6,250 in payload or upper stages. Built at a cost of $3.4
billion each, a fleet of three cost $12 billion - including NRE
charges and infrastructure upgrades.

These vehicles loft a modified 'cargo' stage that puts 1,250 tons into
LEO, or with a third cargo stage, the system puts 250 tons into GEO,
or 250 tons on a lunar free return trajectory, or 250 tons on an
escape trajectory - with return of the vehicle.

Also, 48 people consisting of a crew of 8 are landed on the and
returned to Earth - which includes up to 4 days on the lunar surface.
A lunar cargo version may deploy 50 tons on the moon and return 50
tons to Earth, or deploy 110 tons one way returning empty.

Furthermore, 14 people, consisting of 8 crew, and 6 passengers may be
launched to mars, aerobrake to land there, and take off to return to
Earth - which requires up to two years journey and the use of solar
panels to power the vehicle for long duration. Up to 50 tons of cargo
may be deployed on Mars, or 110 tons one way, with refueling on Mars
using local water.

Cargo costs $1,500 million to loft into space which includes
insurance, or $37.5 million per passenger - for a two week journey to
the moon, including a 4 day stay on the lunar surface. The MMU used
throughout the early program is adapted for lunar travel by rocket
belt up to 200 miles from the landing point. Mars travel is by
special arrangement and costs $6 billion for vehicle lease and
operations. Up to $150 billion is earned per year from vehicle
operations.


SPECIAL PAYLOADS - SERVICES

120 ton LEO payload to sun-synch polar orbit is sufficient to carry 24
satellites each massing 5 tons - into a coplanar orbit. 30 launches
place 720 satellites into a single constellation which provides a
global wireless broadband service, which generates a $150 billion in
revenue each year. We offer telecom services, including handsets or
datapoints, for $12 per year unlimited global communications.

50 tons in GEO is a proof-of-concept power satellite that collects
sunlight with a thin film concentrator over a 2.5 sq km disc of film,
1,785 meters in diameter. The satellite generates 1.4 GW of laser
energy to beam to a 2.5 sq km ground station near the launch center to
generate 1.4 GW 24/7 The satellite costs $100 million including
ground station - and generates $500 million per year when selling
power at $0.04 per kWh. We offer power generation services, including
ground stations and intertie, for $500 million down and $500 million
per year. We build own and operate the facility, buyer obtains all
power output.

250 tons in GEO provides full scale power satellite that collects
sunlight with thin filmconcentrator over a 25 sq km disc of film 5,640
meters in diameter. The satellite generates 14 GW of laser energy to
beam to a large number of small users on the ground anytime the
satellite is visible. The satellite costs $700 million including
ground stations and genrates $5 billion per year. We build own and
operate the facility, buyers obtain recievers in 10 kW increments at a
cost of $500 for equipment deposit and $150 per month - for up to
3,625 kWh - with $0.04 per kWh for additional usage.

S5 - is 38% smaller than the super-heavy launcher described
elsewhere.

Once this system is operational, we are in a position to begin
building Super vehicles, the first stage, 38% larger than the S5 -
called X5 - for extra - then X6 and X7 - to provide 10,000 tons to the
moon and mars and GEO - and 50,000 tons to LEO.

With 200GW solar powersats we then rebuild the X stages to operate by
laser energy. The X5 becomes the XL-5 - an interplanetary scout
craft - capable of moving through interplanetary space with 2,000 sec
specific impulse. The X6 becomes the XL6, with similar improvements
- project 70,000 tons to the surface of the moon or mars with a two
stage craft - using a chemical booster.

The X7 - a monstrous 1.4 million tons at lift off - becomes
XL7.capable of projecting 1/4 of its lift off weight - 350,000 tons -
to the surface of the moon,or mars,or points in the asteroid belt.
The XL-7 reproduces in interplanetary space the same shipping capacity
we use on Earth to tie the continents together.

The monstrous XL-7 spacecraft - deposit 350,000 ton sun orbiting
powersats to orbits within a few milion miles of the solar surface -
inside the orbit of Mercury. They also deliver large optical systems
throughout interplanetary space. These systems deliver trilions of
watts anywhere its needed in the solar system.

The XL-7 also delivers super thrusters - that collect and redirect
trillions of watts to vaporize controlle amounts of asteroids to which
they're attached, and move them throughout the solar system. Once
charged,with several million tons of asteroidal materials, these
thrusters detach from their payloads and fly back to pickup others. -
unassisted - diverting billions of tons of raw materials from the
asteroid belt to Earth orbit.

The XL-7 alos lifts 500,000 ton remotely controlled factory elements
into orbit, meeting the billions of tons of asteroidal materials.
Combined with the trillions of watts of laser power - to drive the
chemical and mechanical processes aboard these factories - tens of
tons of finished goods, food and fiber rain down in response to demand
directly to buyers throughout the world.

Small spacecraft - ranging in size from FedEx 1 pound packages to the
size of large SUVs - propelled by laser powered propulsive skins -
provide same hour package delivery to any point on Earth, These
vehicles provide one hour transport to any point on Earth. In this
way an aerial taxi/package delivery service is implements.

This technology also gives common access to orbit - so that people buy
large pressure vessels and outfit them with ecologies on orbit, and
live in space homes. Billions of space homes orbit - held in place by
the asteroidal factories - acting like shepherd moons - and providing
goods and services to these homes, as well as providing goods and
services to the remaining people on Earth's surface.



..

On Aug 15, 11:12 am, wrote:
The monstrous XL-7 spacecraft - deposit 350,000 ton sun orbiting
powersats to orbits within a few milion miles of the solar surface -
inside the orbit of Mercury. They also deliver large optical systems
throughout interplanetary space. These systems deliver trilions of
watts anywhere its needed in the solar system.

The XL-7 also delivers super thrusters - that collect and redirect
trillions of watts to vaporize controlle amounts of asteroids to which
they're attached, and move them throughout the solar system. Once
charged,with several million tons of asteroidal materials, these
thrusters detach from their payloads and fly back to pickup others. -
unassisted - diverting billions of tons of raw materials from the
asteroid belt to Earth orbit.

The XL-7 alos lifts 500,000 ton remotely controlled factory elements
into orbit, meeting the billions of tons of asteroidal materials.
Combined with the trillions of watts of laser power - to drive the
chemical and mechanical processes aboard these factories - tens of
tons of finished goods, food and fiber rain down in response to demand
directly to buyers throughout the world.

Small spacecraft - ranging in size from FedEx 1 pound packages to the
size of large SUVs - propelled by laser powered propulsive skins -
provide same hour package delivery to any point on Earth, These
vehicles provide one hour transport to any point on Earth. In this
way an aerial taxi/package delivery service is implements.

This technology also gives common access to orbit - so that people buy
large pressure vessels and outfit them with ecologies on orbit, and
live in space homes. Billions of space homes orbit - held in place by
the asteroidal factories - acting like shepherd moons - and providing
goods and services to these homes, as well as providing goods and
services to the remaining people on Earth's surface.

.

And within this century puts how much food on the table, houses how
many common folks, educates and medically takes care of many, and
gives us how much clean energy to affordably get us hard working
minions to/from work?

How much of our 54 trillion dollar dept (plus compounded interest) is
this investment going to pay off, and how soon?

Exactly how much trickle up public loot is all of this going to take?
(all inclusive and/or birth to grave) I bet you're deathly afraid to
say.

Are you suggesting a healthy trend of reverse inflation? (say -10%/
year), obviously not.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth

On Aug 16, 9:47*pm, BradGuth wrote:
On Aug 15, 11:12 am, wrote:





The monstrous XL-7 spacecraft - deposit 350,000 ton sun orbiting
powersats to orbits within a few milion miles of the solar surface -
inside the orbit of Mercury. *They also deliver large optical systems
throughout interplanetary space. *These systems deliver trilions of
watts anywhere its needed in the solar system.

The XL-7 also delivers super thrusters - that collect and redirect
trillions of watts to vaporize controlle amounts of asteroids to which
they're attached, and move them throughout the solar system. *Once
charged,with several million tons of asteroidal materials, these
thrusters detach from their payloads and fly back to pickup others. -
unassisted - *diverting billions of tons of raw materials from the
asteroid belt to Earth orbit.

The XL-7 alos lifts 500,000 ton remotely controlled factory *elements
into orbit, meeting the billions of tons of asteroidal materials.
Combined with the trillions of watts of laser power - to drive the
chemical and mechanical processes aboard these factories - tens of
tons of finished goods, food and fiber rain down in response to demand
directly to buyers throughout the world.

Small spacecraft - ranging in size from FedEx 1 pound packages to the
size of large SUVs - propelled by laser powered propulsive skins -
provide same hour package delivery to any point on Earth, These
vehicles provide one hour transport to any point on Earth. *In this
way an aerial taxi/package delivery service is implements.

This technology also gives common access to orbit - so that people buy
large pressure vessels and outfit them with ecologies on orbit, and
live in space homes. *Billions of space homes orbit - held in place by
the asteroidal factories - acting like shepherd moons - and providing
goods and services to these homes, as well as providing goods and
services to the remaining people on Earth's surface.

.

And within this century puts how much food on the table, houses how
many common folks, educates and medically takes care of many, and
gives us how much clean energy to affordably get us hard working
minions to/from work?

How much of our 54 trillion dollar dept (plus compounded interest) is
this investment going to pay off, and how soon?

Exactly how much trickle up public loot is all of this going to take?
(all inclusive and/or birth to grave) *I bet you're deathly afraid to
say.

Are you suggesting a healthy trend of reverse inflation? (say -10%/
year), obviously not.

* ~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

There are 9.5 milion millionaires in the world and collectively they
control $38 trillion in liquid assets. They control this much wealth
because they were instrumental in CREATING the businesses that allow
humanity to generate $66 trillion per year. The challenge of any
innovator is to create a business model that gives these folks the
possiblity of a positive return on investment. My program does this.

Elsewhere I speak to the fact that we have an energy shortage on this
planet, and copious amounts of clean fusion energy arriving daily from
the sun. Produce solar panels at low cost that allow the production
of energy in forms that are easily marketable, and you have a
winner.

I've achieved that with my coal-to-liquid plants i'm sponsoring around
the world.

What I have done here Brad is I've taken a slice through my projects
from the space launch side. That is, a successful business engages in
activities that make money. An unsuccessful business does not.

Here I show that the development of a $20 million manned rocket can
begin making money today, while larger boosters are developed for it,
increasing the revenue earned by the fleet.

In the end, the launcher and the power satellites come together - and
are expanded upon as we capture asteroids bring them to Earth orbit,
and develop them using solar energy.

Well before 2020 I will have 52 coal-to-liquid facilities operating
throughout the world. Each facility will produce 200,000 b/d - 10
million b/d capacity worldwide.

By that time I will begin orbiting solar power satellites to power
each of these. Before 2024 all 52 will be powersat augmented, and
produce 160 million b/d equivalent - eliminating the need for any
other energy source.

This will cause a free fall in energy prices, and a radical expansion
in the global economy.

Simultaneously with this, which I have described to you elsewhere, and
you've ignored routinely, I will adapt my low cost method of making
solar panels to also making low cost housing, green houses, and barns.

A by product of my coal-to-liquid facilities is also ammonia produced
from atmospheric nitrogen.

Finally, I have already sponsored two projects in Australia to use
solar power to desalinate seawater - while keeping the salt and
selling it to defray costs. My cost of water is less than $1 per kilo-
liter- and costs will decline as this technology expands.

Low cost, housing, low cost greenhouses,low cost and abundant water,
low cost fertilizer, these are needed and used right now.

I have described elsewhere, and in this posting, a communications
satellite constellation. Here a large number of satellites, equipped
with phased array antennae, paint virtual cells across the face of the
Earth, and communicate with one another in space via open optical data
links at 20 trillion bits per second. 50 billion channels are opened
across the world, using very low cost handsets - to provide telephone,
internet, banking and financial services world wide. Microbanking
software and secure transactions - permit the development of a global
electronic currency which provides all people everywhere a sound basis
to save and work and grow. Something the poorest of us have not had
access to.

All these efforts and more besides are directed toward the development
of markets for products made from captured asteroids.

The richest fragements of material floating in the solar system, will
be returned to Earth orbit, and processed into products for
distribution to humanity , on Earth and space. Factories, Farms,
Forests will be buil ton orbit, products, food and fiber will be
distribute ballistically from orbit by rail gun with GPS guided
vehicles.

In addition to individual homes and vehicles, large floating cities
will be built on orbit from asteroidal materials and deorbited.
Powered and heated by laser beam, the cloud cities will float through
the skies of Earth. 1 mile in diameter, they will house up to 150,000
people in comfort, and be supplied with food and people will work
telerobotically anywhere.

Finally, ballistic package delivery and ballistic transport will
become common place with the arrival of propulsive skin spacecraft
that are powered form lasers in space. These VTOL capable craft will
arive in seconds in response to a satellite telephone call and take
the users anywhere they wish in minutes, as easily as navigating
google Earth by texting the destination into their phone. and the
vehcile drops them off and moves on to another user.

200 million vehicles can provide seamless service for 8 billion
customers throughout the world.

The producition of space homes about the size of space colonies
propose in the 1970s - excepting these space homes are owned
individually and maintained by robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:I...ford_torus.jpg

The robots are capable of being built today. They are tele-robots -
where folks report to work electronically.

For example, right now we have farmers going into their field and
growing corn. They tend the corn for everyone - spending a few micro-
seconds on the corn you eat, and on the corn I eat. The corn is
harvested, processed, transported, stored, and presented for sale.
The processing transport and sale take the bulk of the money. The
farmer gets very little of it.

Now, before space homes, we build a comsat network, and a network of
automated laser powered airplanes - like global hawk but cheaper
andmore efficient - and folks in green houses grow corn efficiently,
and harvest it and process it at the farm, and in response to orders
online - corn gets distributed by automated airplanes - in a virtual
free market.

After asteroidal capture but before space homes, we build a network of
super farms on orbit. Farmers skilled in the art of growing corn,
grow corn on a massive scale at lower cost for greater income - tele-
robotically. the corn gets distributed by GPS guide re-entry vehicle
- ordered throgh the same market as before.

Now we have space homes. You own your own space home - with
sufficient area to grow your own corn. You have a telerobotic farmer
- among others - and the farmer reports to your field electronically -
just as he did before - except your corn is yours and you pay him as a
hired hand. He does this because he makes more money. You do it
because you get more corn for the money you pay - and because the
quality is improved and its fresher and cleaner.

The same analysis shows that you can receive all other services and
goods the same way on your space estate.

As software is developed to displace workers, and eagerly adopted by
both workers and consumers since it increases revenues for labor
remaining while reducing work loads increasing output lower costs -
space estates become more independent, and the demand for propulsive
capacity on these space stations increases - leading to a movement
beyond Earth orbit, and ultimately, beyond Sol.




.

On Aug 17, 6:19 am, wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:47 pm, BradGuth wrote:



On Aug 15, 11:12 am, wrote:

The monstrous XL-7 spacecraft - deposit 350,000 ton sun orbiting
powersats to orbits within a few milion miles of the solar surface -
inside the orbit of Mercury. They also deliver large optical systems
throughout interplanetary space. These systems deliver trilions of
watts anywhere its needed in the solar system.

The XL-7 also delivers super thrusters - that collect and redirect
trillions of watts to vaporize controlle amounts of asteroids to which
they're attached, and move them throughout the solar system. Once
charged,with several million tons of asteroidal materials, these
thrusters detach from their payloads and fly back to pickup others. -
unassisted - diverting billions of tons of raw materials from the
asteroid belt to Earth orbit.

The XL-7 alos lifts 500,000 ton remotely controlled factory elements
into orbit, meeting the billions of tons of asteroidal materials.
Combined with the trillions of watts of laser power - to drive the
chemical and mechanical processes aboard these factories - tens of
tons of finished goods, food and fiber rain down in response to demand
directly to buyers throughout the world.

Small spacecraft - ranging in size from FedEx 1 pound packages to the
size of large SUVs - propelled by laser powered propulsive skins -
provide same hour package delivery to any point on Earth, These
vehicles provide one hour transport to any point on Earth. In this
way an aerial taxi/package delivery service is implements.

This technology also gives common access to orbit - so that people buy
large pressure vessels and outfit them with ecologies on orbit, and
live in space homes. Billions of space homes orbit - held in place by
the asteroidal factories - acting like shepherd moons - and providing
goods and services to these homes, as well as providing goods and
services to the remaining people on Earth's surface.

.

And within this century puts how much food on the table, houses how
many common folks, educates and medically takes care of many, and
gives us how much clean energy to affordably get us hard working
minions to/from work?

How much of our 54 trillion dollar dept (plus compounded interest) is
this investment going to pay off, and how soon?

Exactly how much trickle up public loot is all of this going to take?
(all inclusive and/or birth to grave) I bet you're deathly afraid to
say.

Are you suggesting a healthy trend of reverse inflation? (say -10%/
year), obviously not.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

There are 9.5 milion millionaires in the world and collectively they
control $38 trillion in liquid assets. They control this much wealth
because they were instrumental in CREATING the businesses that allow
humanity to generate $66 trillion per year. The challenge of any
innovator is to create a business model that gives these folks the
possiblity of a positive return on investment. My program does this.

Elsewhere I speak to the fact that we have an energy shortage on this
planet, and copious amounts of clean fusion energy arriving daily from
the sun. Produce solar panels at low cost that allow the production
of energy in forms that are easily marketable, and you have a
winner.

I've achieved that with my coal-to-liquid plants i'm sponsoring around
the world.

What I have done here Brad is I've taken a slice through my projects
from the space launch side. That is, a successful business engages in
activities that make money. An unsuccessful business does not.

Here I show that the development of a $20 million manned rocket can
begin making money today, while larger boosters are developed for it,
increasing the revenue earned by the fleet.

In the end, the launcher and the power satellites come together - and
are expanded upon as we capture asteroids bring them to Earth orbit,
and develop them using solar energy.

Well before 2020 I will have 52 coal-to-liquid facilities operating
throughout the world. Each facility will produce 200,000 b/d - 10
million b/d capacity worldwide.

By that time I will begin orbiting solar power satellites to power
each of these. Before 2024 all 52 will be powersat augmented, and
produce 160 million b/d equivalent - eliminating the need for any
other energy source.

This will cause a free fall in energy prices, and a radical expansion
in the global economy.

Simultaneously with this, which I have described to you elsewhere, and
you've ignored routinely, I will adapt my low cost method of making
solar panels to also making low cost housing, green houses, and barns.

A by product of my coal-to-liquid facilities is also ammonia produced
from atmospheric nitrogen.

Finally, I have already sponsored two projects in Australia to use
solar power to desalinate seawater - while keeping the salt and
selling it to defray costs. My cost of water is less than $1 per kilo-
liter- and costs will decline as this technology expands.

Low cost, housing, low cost greenhouses,low cost and abundant water,
low cost fertilizer, these are needed and used right now.

I have described elsewhere, and in this posting, a communications
satellite constellation. Here a large number of satellites, equipped
with phased array antennae, paint virtual cells across the face of the
Earth, and communicate with one another in space via open optical data
links at 20 trillion bits per second. 50 billion channels are opened
across the world, using very low cost handsets - to provide telephone,
internet, banking and financial services world wide. Microbanking
software and secure transactions - permit the development of a global
electronic currency which provides all people everywhere a sound basis
to save and work and grow. Something the poorest of us have not had
access to.

All these efforts and more besides are directed toward the development
of markets for products made from captured asteroids.

The richest fragements of material floating in the solar system, will
be returned to Earth orbit, and processed into products for
distribution to humanity , on Earth and space. Factories, Farms,
Forests will be buil ton orbit, products, food and fiber will be
distribute ballistically from orbit by rail gun with GPS guided
vehicles.

In addition to individual homes and vehicles, large floating cities
will be built on orbit from asteroidal materials and deorbited.
Powered and heated by laser beam, the cloud cities will float through
the skies of Earth. 1 mile in diameter, they will house up to 150,000
people in comfort, and be supplied with food and people will work
telerobotically anywhere.

Finally, ballistic package delivery and ballistic transport will
become common place with the arrival of propulsive skin spacecraft
that are powered form lasers in space. These VTOL capable craft will
arive in seconds in response to a satellite telephone call and take
the users anywhere they wish in minutes, as easily as navigating
google Earth by texting the destination into their phone. and the
vehcile drops them off and moves on to another user.

200 million vehicles can provide seamless service for 8 billion
customers throughout the world.

The producition of space homes about the size of space colonies
propose in the 1970s - excepting these space homes are owned
individually and maintained by robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:I..._Stanford_toru...

The robots are capable of being built today. They are tele-robots -
where folks report to work electronically.

For example, right now we have farmers going into their field and
growing corn. They tend the corn for everyone - spending a few micro-
seconds on the corn you eat, and on the corn I eat. The corn is
harvested, processed, transported, stored, and presented for sale.
The processing transport and sale take the bulk of the money. The
farmer gets very little of it.

Now, before space homes, we build a comsat network, and a network of
automated laser powered airplanes - like global hawk but cheaper
andmore efficient - and folks in green houses grow corn efficiently,
and harvest it and process it at the farm, and in response to orders
online - corn gets distributed by automated airplanes - in a virtual
free market.

After asteroidal capture but before space homes, we build a network of
super farms on orbit. Farmers skilled in the art of growing corn,
grow corn on a massive scale at lower cost for greater income - tele-
robotically. the corn gets distributed by GPS guide re-entry vehicle
- ordered throgh the same market as before.

Now we have space homes. You own your own space home - with
sufficient area to grow your own corn. You have a telerobotic farmer
- among others - and the farmer reports to your field electronically -
just as he did before - except your corn is yours and you pay him as a
hired hand. He does this because he makes more money. You do it
because you get more corn for the money you pay - and because the
quality is improved and its fresher and cleaner.

The same analysis shows that you can receive all other services and
goods the same way on your space estate.

As software is developed to displace workers, and eagerly adopted by
both workers and consumers since it increases revenues for labor
remaining while reducing work loads increasing output lower costs -
space estates become more independent, and the demand for propulsive
capacity on these space stations increases - leading to a movement
beyond Earth orbit, and ultimately, beyond Sol.

.

You keep spouting off that the growing population of the rich and
powerful would have moral intentions of sharing their trickle-up loot
back with the rest of us common village idiots. (I don't think so)

You have refused to revise history in order to reflect the truth, thus
your plan of action is at best badly skewed and rather unlikely to
affordably mature from the very get go, not that everything you have
placed on the table is insurmountable.

Robotics will not sufficiently replace the hard work of humanity
within this century, and of getting ourselves past this century is
where we'll likely be paying $100/gallon of fossil or synfuel and $10/
kwhr, all because of folks like yourself that can't get much of
anything down to business without it costing us more than any return
on investment can muster.

We first need to create a plan of action that'll deliver 100 TW worth
of mostly renewable and thereby sustainable terrestrial energy that's
clean enough and affordable so that it doesn't end up causing wars or
otherwise killing us, and secondly we'll need to command and fully
utilize the Selene/moon L1, then perhaps onto Venus L2 and of course
doing Venus itself.

Once we've honestly accomplished our Selene/moon, the LSE-CM/ISS and
thereby efficiently extracting precious minerals and raw elements away
from the moon for our terrestrial benefit, is when we can move on to
bigger and better things. Creating a POOF City at Venus L2 is
actually much simpler, safer and affordably doable than any Selene/
moon L1 Clarke Station, but that doesn't by itself improve upon much
of anything terrestrial.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth

An infrared laser beam originating in space with 650 W/m2 that
illuminates four 20 inch diameter refractory patch with a cooled PV
power center - that heats air to drive each of four tilt rotors in an
advanced tilt-rotor aircraft

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7147182.html

that carries up to 5 tonnes of cargo unpiloted for an unlimited range
without refueling.

Each 200 GW powersat simultaneously powers 325,000 aircraft in flight,
and with loading and unloading and service times,each satellite
supports 600,000 aircraft.

With 350 mile per hour speeds and 3 hour typical service range, with
loading and unloading and service times,operated at 70% loadings -
this represents a capacity of 8.4 million tonnes per day. Assuming
adequate economic activity requires the delivery of 4 tonnes per
person per year (USA per capita excluding fuel and construction
meterials) - 10 satellites and 6 million tilt-rotor craft provide
adequate cargo capacity for nearly 8 billion people.

1 satellite with 600,000 rotor craft can deliver food clothing and
medicine on a regular basis to 3 billion of the poorest on Earth. At
$50,000 each for the tilt rotor (in quantity) this translates to $9.6
billion for the satellite and $30 billion for the rotor craft. The
nearly $40 bilion spread over 3 billion people and 30 years of service
life translates to $0.44 per person per day. Well within the capacity
of those folks to pay the shipping charges even today.

When one considers the ability of satellite based telerobotics to
bring labor opportunities to the world's poorest people, with minimal
social disruption, one can see that a few power sats beyond those used
to increase the output of coal-to-liquid facilities - very quickly
transforms life on Earth.

Once the ground based terrestrial solar has been fully populated, the
solar panel plants will be converted to the construction of inflatable
housing, barns and green houses- as well as thin film gossamer
spacecraft - to collect and process solar energy. This combined with
the launchers described here will provide continuous improvement in
living conditions on Earth by tapping increasing amounts of resources
off-world and making them cheaply available to people throughout the
world.

The amount of liquid capital increases dramatically over this period,
since I tapped into it early on to fund the 52 coal to liquid plants.
Those cost a total of $8 billion each on average which totals $416
billion - out of the $38,000 billion total held by the world's 9.5
million millionaires.

The value of each of these plants will exceed $200 billion when the
solar component is completed, and 30% of this will be sold to fund
development. This amounts to $70 billion per plant - or $3.64
trillion - another $6.6 trillion is held by newly rich associated with
the production of these plants.

That combined with increasing economic growth rates due to low cost
energy, translates to about $60 trillion held by 20 million people
within 12 years of today.

At this point the revenue stream from gasoline, jet fuel and diesel
fuel sales will be sufficient to carry out solar power satellites, and
the development of hydrogen fueled and direct beam powered vehicles
along with global wireless internet from space, the development of
telerobotics, and telepresence to expand work opportunities, as well
as package and passenger delivery by automated laser powered tilt
rotor aircraft.

A person on a farm in Indonesia, can operate a wireless touchpoint -
and arrange credit to order greenhouses, fertilizer, and tele-robots
on his or her farm. Robot labor and laser powered equipment provide a
dramatic increase in farm output. products are processed and packaged
on the farm. then sold over the wireless internet throughout asia and
funds received electronically. VTOL tilt rotor aircraft pick up the
crops and deliver them directly to consumers.

Meanwhile, folks living in a remote village in China, can drive robots
in Indonesia and grow coffee say. A person in Sydney or Japan can
order estate coffee from a farmer in Indonesia and have it delivered
in hours of ordering it.

The village inhabitant in china takes his profits and arrange the
purchase of an inflatable home, and improved telerobotic setup. He
undergoes training on line along with his family, and they expand
their range of services.

....

There's no question that good science and applied technology could
easily save our energy sucking butts. Unfortunately, of those in
charge of our private parts and most of our hard earned loot are not
about to allow folks like yourself to pass along such terrific
benefits or savings, especially not to those outside of whatever
they'd accept as being worthy.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth



On Aug 17, 8:16 am, wrote:
An infrared laser beam originating in space with 650 W/m2 that
illuminates four 20 inch diameter refractory patch with a cooled PV
power center - that heats air to drive each of four tilt rotors in an
advanced tilt-rotor aircraft

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7147182.html

that carries up to 5 tonnes of cargo unpiloted for an unlimited range
without refueling.

Each 200 GW powersat simultaneously powers 325,000 aircraft in flight,
and with loading and unloading and service times,each satellite
supports 600,000 aircraft.

With 350 mile per hour speeds and 3 hour typical service range, with
loading and unloading and service times,operated at 70% loadings -
this represents a capacity of 8.4 million tonnes per day. Assuming
adequate economic activity requires the delivery of 4 tonnes per
person per year (USA per capita excluding fuel and construction
meterials) - 10 satellites and 6 million tilt-rotor craft provide
adequate cargo capacity for nearly 8 billion people.

1 satellite with 600,000 rotor craft can deliver food clothing and
medicine on a regular basis to 3 billion of the poorest on Earth. At
$50,000 each for the tilt rotor (in quantity) this translates to $9.6
billion for the satellite and $30 billion for the rotor craft. The
nearly $40 bilion spread over 3 billion people and 30 years of service
life translates to $0.44 per person per day. Well within the capacity
of those folks to pay the shipping charges even today.

When one considers the ability of satellite based telerobotics to
bring labor opportunities to the world's poorest people, with minimal
social disruption, one can see that a few power sats beyond those used
to increase the output of coal-to-liquid facilities - very quickly
transforms life on Earth.

Once the ground based terrestrial solar has been fully populated, the
solar panel plants will be converted to the construction of inflatable
housing, barns and green houses- as well as thin film gossamer
spacecraft - to collect and process solar energy. This combined with
the launchers described here will provide continuous improvement in
living conditions on Earth by tapping increasing amounts of resources
off-world and making them cheaply available to people throughout the
world.

The amount of liquid capital increases dramatically over this period,
since I tapped into it early on to fund the 52 coal to liquid plants.
Those cost a total of $8 billion each on average which totals $416
billion - out of the $38,000 billion total held by the world's 9.5
million millionaires.

The value of each of these plants will exceed $200 billion when the
solar component is completed, and 30% of this will be sold to fund
development. This amounts to $70 billion per plant - or $3.64
trillion - another $6.6 trillion is held by newly rich associated with
the production of these plants.

That combined with increasing economic growth rates due to low cost
energy, translates to about $60 trillion held by 20 million people
within 12 years of today.

At this point the revenue stream from gasoline, jet fuel and diesel
fuel sales will be sufficient to carry out solar power satellites, and
the development of hydrogen fueled and direct beam powered vehicles
along with global wireless internet from space, the development of
telerobotics, and telepresence to expand work opportunities, as well
as package and passenger delivery by automated laser powered tilt
rotor aircraft.

A person on a farm in Indonesia, can operate a wireless touchpoint -
and arrange credit to order greenhouses, fertilizer, and tele-robots
on his or her farm. Robot labor and laser powered equipment provide a
dramatic increase in farm output. products are processed and packaged
on the farm. then sold over the wireless internet throughout asia and
funds received electronically. VTOL tilt rotor aircraft pick up the
crops and deliver them directly to consumers.

Meanwhile, folks living in a remote village in China, can drive robots
in Indonesia and grow coffee say. A person in Sydney or Japan can
order estate coffee from a farmer in Indonesia and have it delivered
in hours of ordering it.

The village inhabitant in china takes his profits and arrange the
purchase of an inflatable home, and improved telerobotic setup. He
undergoes training on line along with his family, and they expand
their range of services.

...

You keep spouting off that the growing population of the rich and
powerful would have moral intentions of sharing their trickle-up loot
back with the rest of us common village idiots. (I seriously don't
think so)

You have refused to revise history in order to reflect the truth, thus
your plan of action is at best badly skewed and rather unlikely to
affordably mature from the very get go, not that everything you have
placed on the table is insurmountable.

Robotics will not sufficiently replace the hard work of humanity
within this century, and of getting ourselves past this century is
where we'll likely be paying $100/gallon of fossil or synfuel and $10/
kwhr, all because of folks like yourself that can't get much of
anything down to business without it costing us more than any return
on investment can muster.

We first need to create a viable plan of action that'll deliver 100 TW
worth of mostly renewable and thereby sustainable terrestrial energy
that's clean enough and affordable so that it doesn't end up causing
wars or otherwise killing us, and secondly we'll need to command and
fully utilize the Selene/moon L1, then perhaps onto Venus L2 and of
course doing Venus itself.

Once we've honestly accomplished our Selene/moon, the LSE-CM/ISS and
thereby efficiently extracting precious minerals and raw elements away
from the moon for our terrestrial benefit, is when we can move
ourselves on to bigger and better things. Creating a POOF City at
Venus L2 is actually much simpler, safer and more affordably doable
than any Selene/moon L1 Clarke Station, but that doesn't by itself
improve upon much of anything terrestrial.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth



On Aug 17, 6:19 am, wrote:
On Aug 16, 9:47 pm, BradGuth wrote:



On Aug 15, 11:12 am, wrote:

The monstrous XL-7 spacecraft - deposit 350,000 ton sun orbiting
powersats to orbits within a few milion miles of the solar surface -
inside the orbit of Mercury. They also deliver large optical systems
throughout interplanetary space. These systems deliver trilions of
watts anywhere its needed in the solar system.

The XL-7 also delivers super thrusters - that collect and redirect
trillions of watts to vaporize controlle amounts of asteroids to which
they're attached, and move them throughout the solar system. Once
charged,with several million tons of asteroidal materials, these
thrusters detach from their payloads and fly back to pickup others. -
unassisted - diverting billions of tons of raw materials from the
asteroid belt to Earth orbit.

The XL-7 alos lifts 500,000 ton remotely controlled factory elements
into orbit, meeting the billions of tons of asteroidal materials.
Combined with the trillions of watts of laser power - to drive the
chemical and mechanical processes aboard these factories - tens of
tons of finished goods, food and fiber rain down in response to demand
directly to buyers throughout the world.

Small spacecraft - ranging in size from FedEx 1 pound packages to the
size of large SUVs - propelled by laser powered propulsive skins -
provide same hour package delivery to any point on Earth, These
vehicles provide one hour transport to any point on Earth. In this
way an aerial taxi/package delivery service is implements.

This technology also gives common access to orbit - so that people buy
large pressure vessels and outfit them with ecologies on orbit, and
live in space homes. Billions of space homes orbit - held in place by
the asteroidal factories - acting like shepherd moons - and providing
goods and services to these homes, as well as providing goods and
services to the remaining people on Earth's surface.

.

And within this century puts how much food on the table, houses how
many common folks, educates and medically takes care of many, and
gives us how much clean energy to affordably get us hard working
minions to/from work?

How much of our 54 trillion dollar dept (plus compounded interest) is
this investment going to pay off, and how soon?

Exactly how much trickle up public loot is all of this going to take?
(all inclusive and/or birth to grave) I bet you're deathly afraid to
say.

Are you suggesting a healthy trend of reverse inflation? (say -10%/
year), obviously not.

~ Brad Guth Brad_Guth Brad.Guth BradGuth- Hide quoted text -

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There are 9.5 milion millionaires in the world and collectively they
control $38 trillion in liquid assets. They control this much wealth
because they were instrumental in CREATING the businesses that allow
humanity to generate $66 trillion per year. The challenge of any
innovator is to create a business model that gives these folks the
possiblity of a positive return on investment. My program does this.

Elsewhere I speak to the fact that we have an energy shortage on this
planet, and copious amounts of clean fusion energy arriving daily from
the sun. Produce solar panels at low cost that allow the production
of energy in forms that are easily marketable, and you have a
winner.

I've achieved that with my coal-to-liquid plants i'm sponsoring around
the world.

What I have done here Brad is I've taken a slice through my projects
from the space launch side. That is, a successful business engages in
activities that make money. An unsuccessful business does not.

Here I show that the development of a $20 million manned rocket can
begin making money today, while larger boosters are developed for it,
increasing the revenue earned by the fleet.

In the end, the launcher and the power satellites come together - and
are expanded upon as we capture asteroids bring them to Earth orbit,
and develop them using solar energy.

Well before 2020 I will have 52 coal-to-liquid facilities operating
throughout the world. Each facility will produce 200,000 b/d - 10
million b/d capacity worldwide.

By that time I will begin orbiting solar power satellites to power
each of these. Before 2024 all 52 will be powersat augmented, and
produce 160 million b/d equivalent - eliminating the need for any
other energy source.

This will cause a free fall in energy prices, and a radical expansion
in the global economy.

Simultaneously with this, which I have described to you elsewhere, and
you've ignored routinely, I will adapt my low cost method of making
solar panels to also making low cost housing, green houses, and barns.

A by product of my coal-to-liquid facilities is also ammonia produced
from atmospheric nitrogen.

Finally, I have already sponsored two projects in Australia to use
solar power to desalinate seawater - while keeping the salt and
selling it to defray costs. My cost of water is less than $1 per kilo-
liter- and costs will decline as this technology expands.

Low cost, housing, low cost greenhouses,low cost and abundant water,
low cost fertilizer, these are needed and used right now.

I have described elsewhere, and in this posting, a communications
satellite constellation. Here a large number of satellites, equipped
with phased array antennae, paint virtual cells across the face of the
Earth, and communicate with one another in space via open optical data
links at 20 trillion bits per second. 50 billion channels are opened
across the world, using very low cost handsets - to provide telephone,
internet, banking and financial services world wide. Microbanking
software and secure transactions - permit the development of a global
electronic currency which provides all people everywhere a sound basis
to save and work and grow. Something the poorest of us have not had
access to.

All these efforts and more besides are directed toward the development
of markets for products made from captured asteroids.

The richest fragements of material floating in the solar system, will
be returned to Earth orbit, and processed into products for
distribution to humanity , on Earth and space. Factories, Farms,
Forests will be buil ton orbit, products, food and fiber will be
distribute ballistically from orbit by rail gun with GPS guided
vehicles.

In addition to individual homes and vehicles, large floating cities
will be built on orbit from asteroidal materials and deorbited.
Powered and heated by laser beam, the cloud cities will float through
the skies of Earth. 1 mile in diameter, they will house up to 150,000
people in comfort, and be supplied with food and people will work
telerobotically anywhere.

Finally, ballistic package delivery and ballistic transport will
become common place with the arrival of propulsive skin spacecraft
that are powered form lasers in space. These VTOL capable craft will
arive in seconds in response to a satellite telephone call and take
the users anywhere they wish in minutes, as easily as navigating
google Earth by texting the destination into their phone. and the
vehcile drops them off and moves on to another user.

200 million vehicles can provide seamless service for 8 billion
customers throughout the world.

The producition of space homes about the size of space colonies
propose in the 1970s - excepting these space homes are owned
individually and maintained by robots.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:I..._Stanford_toru...

The robots are capable of being built today. They are tele-robots -
where folks report to work electronically.

For example, right now we have farmers going into their field and
growing corn. They tend the corn for everyone - spending a few micro-
seconds on the corn you eat, and on the corn I eat. The corn is
harvested, processed, transported, stored, and presented for sale.
The processing transport and sale take the bulk of the money. The
farmer gets very little of it.

Now, before space homes, we build a comsat network, and a network of
automated laser powered airplanes - like global hawk but cheaper
andmore efficient - and folks in green houses grow corn efficiently,
and harvest it and process it at the farm, and in response to orders
online - corn gets distributed by automated airplanes - in a virtual
free market.

After asteroidal capture but before space homes, we build a network of
super farms on orbit. Farmers skilled in the art of growing corn,
grow corn on a massive scale at lower cost for greater income - tele-
robotically. the corn gets distributed by GPS guide re-entry vehicle
- ordered throgh the same market as before.

Now we have space homes. You own your own space home - with
sufficient area to grow your own corn. You have a telerobotic farmer
- among others - and the farmer reports to your field electronically -
just as he did before - except your corn is yours and you pay him as a
hired hand. He does this because he makes more money. You do it
because you get more corn for the money you pay - and because the
quality is improved and its fresher and cleaner.

The same analysis shows that you can receive all other services and
goods the same way on your space estate.

As software is developed to displace workers, and eagerly adopted by
both workers and consumers since it increases revenues for labor
remaining while reducing work loads increasing output lower costs -
space estates become more independent, and the demand for propulsive
capacity on these space stations increases - leading to a movement
beyond Earth orbit, and ultimately, beyond Sol.

.

The 9.5 million millionaires present in the world today, along with
the 11.5 million millionaires I will create with my 52 coal-to-liquid
facilities, will invest in projects that CREATE wealth - and share a
PART of that wealth for use of THEIR capital.

Its really rather simple.

What is required are engineers and scientists who understand how
economics works, and devise systems that operate well within the
present economic environment.

Any restrictive ideologies that limit the ability of the world's
economy to meet the needs of the world's people, will be identified
for what it is, and be set aside. Politically I would expect this
work in much the same way as the Magna Carta Libertatum in 1215
following the first Barons; war

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barons%27_War

which will establish liberty for all, and open the world's market to
development unhindered by concerns related to ancient concerns such as
'national security' - such concerns will become increasingly hard for
our offspring to understand in the new age where invididual liberty
predominates in a secure and safe and prosperous environment.
.
The V-22 Osprey is a fossil fueled prototype of the vehicle I'm
speaking of. 5,000 taken off the structural weight (due to engines
being lighter and no fuel) and added to the payload wieght. Structure
is largely PET film stabilized by EPS fill on an aluminum frame. .

Crew: two - teleoperation channels.
Capacity: 24 passengers (seated), 8 passengers (standing)
or up to 20,000 pounds of cargo

Length: 57 ft 4 in (17.5 m)
Rotor diameter: 38 ft 0 in (11.6 m)
Wingspan: 46 ft (14 m); 84 ft 7 in (including rotors))
Height: 22 ft 1 in (overall - nacelles vertical) (17 ft 11 in 5.5 m
(at top of tailfins))
Disc area: 2,268 ft² (212 m²)
Wing area: 301.4 ft² (28 m²)
Empty weight: 28,140 lb (15,032 kg)
Loaded weight: 47,500 lb (21,500 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 60,500 lb (27,400 kg)
Powerplant: 2× laser driven shafts 6,150 hp (4,590 kW) each

Performance

Maximum speed: 275 knots (316 mph, 509 km/h)
Cruise speed: 214 knots (246 mph, 396 km/h) at sea level
Range: unlimiyrf
Ferry range: unlimited
Service ceiling 26,000 ft (7,925 m)
Rate of climb: 2,320 ft/min (11.8 m/s)
Disc loading: 20.9 lb/ft² @ 47,500 lb GW (102.23 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.259 hp/lb (427 W/kg)

Producing 10 vehicles per hour mean each factory produces 87,660
vehicles per year. Three plants operating 12 years produce 3.2 million
vehicles.

With an all in cost of $25 per worker hour, a $50,000 production cost
and a 6 minute produciton cycle implies 20,000 workers per production
line - including the entire supply chain. With typical capital
expenses and so forth, each plant can be expected to cost $3 billion
to set up. With four shifts per factory, 240,000 workers overall.

The first 18 months of production would produce sufficient numbers of
vehicles to provide basic food, medicine and clothing for 3 billion of
the world's poorest people. This capacity combined with services of
the global wireless internet, provides the basis to rapidly raise
living standards, and expand global markets, to include 3 billion of
the poorest, hardest working, people on the planet - raising their
living standards from today's level to say double curren USA levels
provides a means to CREATE 6 quadrillion dollars - and the basic
infrastructure I'm describing sets all that in place - and ultimately
costs about 4% of the total created.

So, this is well worth the investment.

The investment grows richer with increased levels of automation
expected over this same period.

So, the steps include;

1) 8 solar powered CTL plants, suborbital rocket
2) 44 additional solar powered CTL plants, orbital rocket
3) 660 comsat constellation - financial/banking/comm services,
conversion of terrestrial panels to powersat and housing
hydrogen fueled supersonic transport
4) powersat adjunct to solar CTL hydrogen sales add on,
direct beam powered tilt-rotor factories
telerobotics
5) direct beaming to users, tilt-rotor package/passenger svcs.
6) deep space propulsion, sun orbiting power sats, asteroid survey
lunar city, mars city
7) retrieval of richest asteroids to earth orbit, teleoperated
factories
farms and forests on orbit, product delivery direct from
orbit
8) cloud nine cities built on orbit, deorbited and inflated to
float on
earth's skies - powered by laser, supplied from orbit
9) laser rocket development, laser propulsive skin, personal
ballistic
transport
10) space homes - personal spacehip.

This between now and 2030 -