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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams ofMoon Rocks!
Please see
http://www.usoal.com I have perfected low-cost solar panels. Terrestrial solar is the first step. Given the nature of PV cells, its easiest to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen plus coal equals crude oil, methane and char. Char plus oxygen equals carbon dioxide. CO plus hydrogen equals methanol. Methane plus oxygen equals methanol. Dehydrate methanol and get iso-octane. Add the iso-octane to the crude oil and get light crude oil. I have two facilities under construction in Indonesia that each are planned to produce 200,000 barrels per day. I am selling 20 forward contracts from each of the two facilities that are under constrution in Indonesia. Each contract sells 10,000 barrels of oil for $750,000. with $250,000 deposit on 10,000 barrels of oil with a balance of $500,000 due on delivery in 60 months. At that time if a barrel of oil sells for $125 - this contract will be worth $1,250,000 - which means after paying the $500,000 for the oil, you pocket $750,000 on your original $250,000 investment. Of course if oil drops to less than $75 per barrel at the time you take delivery, you won't make any money. I will build 42 facilities like this over the next 14 years. This is enough to produce 8% of the world's crude oil needs. I will also buy space launch assets from various aerospace contractors to built a 7 element RLV capable of putting 500 metric tons into LEO. A 3 element version puts 225 tons into LEO, and a one element version with inline upper stage puts 75 tons into LEO. This vehicle consists of a stretched ET with an aerospike engine at its base, using 5 RS-68 pumpsets. Each flight element masses 1,000 tons at lift off, produces 1,500 tons of thrust at lift off, and carries 880 metric tons of propellant. They are also equipped with cross-feed to implement a unique staging approach I have created, but found out that others have thought of the same thing in the past. All elements are fully recovered and reused. The 500 ton version orbits a thin film concentrator that focuses light onto a multi-spectral PV array that operates at 5,000x solar intensity. The PV array drives a free-electron laser that produces laser energy at very high efficiencies. The laser beam uses holographic techniques and nonlinear optical media along with adaptive optics to beam energy to the 42 solar panel powered coal to liquid facilities located around the world. This increases hyrogen and oxygen output by 16x. A portion of this is used to increase oil output to 700,000 b/d per facility - providing 35% of the world's crude oil. The balance of the increase is used to create hyrogen gas which s used directly as a fuel., This provides the equivalent of 1,250,000 b/d per facility. Which exceeds the current demand for energy. 4,000 satellites each generating 6,000 MW of laser power are place in GEO and operated to feed energy to the coal-to-liquid plants. A fleet of 30 heavy lift booster take 10 days each to be refurbished and reloaded for a flight. Three flights per day are carried out. In four years 4,000 satellites are deployed. It takes 6 years to design and build out the fleet of rockets and the launch center. It takes four years from today to get the first two facilities in production. Revenue from the sale of oil from the first two facilities pays for everything. Once the world's energy prices have been resolved, the fleet of 30 heavy lift boosters are available to place piloted payloads onto orbit, on the moon, on Mars and in the Asteroid belt. Additional revenues may be earned by developing these accessible frontier regions. |
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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams ofMoon Rocks!
Any place on Earth becomes livable and otherwise survivable if you can
afford it. However, no matters how rich and powerful you are, it takes fire to fight fire, mostly in the form of many ICEs burning off loads of fossil derived energy that’s getting spendier and even bloodier by the hour. Electrical powered technology, unless using RTGs or via synfuel along with h2o2 created, stored and distributed by way of renewable energy that’s in surplus, isn’t going to fight any significant fire for long. Perhaps creating a multitude of km tall water towers, say at least one for each and every 100 square miles that could also be used as terrific solar energy collectors, as well as each hosting a 250 meter diameter wind turbine would start to make sense. On May 7, 7:56 am, (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote: Jeff If all I had was my dog Rudy I would be a happy camper. Got my conversion van up to snuff. You know Progress Energy Mafia over billed me to the tune of 750 bucks, and will not pay this fraudulent bill. Will be turning my water off this week. Even a mother just having a baby that needs warm bath water they would leave with no power.(Claire Recinello) What chance do I have. Progress Energy billing is fraudulent as proven by chanel 9 news Instead of returning $146,000,000 they are with the help of Florida Governor Charie Crist making people like me pay these overcharged bills. I wonder if Charlie Crist might let these Mafia owned utilities break my legs if they are not paid? It fits. Charlie Crist will make Osceola sheriff "Bob' Hansel the Florida Attorney General. A sheriff that can get away with threatening lives and taking away a citizen's first amendment rights is the right man for that job Oh ya Bert I take it you and others of your kind are not happy campers about joining up with the New World Order, of pandering and otherwise brown- nosing to those in charge of our 3200% fossil energy inflation in the past 60 years, and of most everything else made ENRON and Federal Reserve cartel exclusive, and for the rest of us simply over-priced to the point where only the rich and powerful can afford their water, gas and electrical overhead along with their $5/gallon fuel. Doing the last year's worth of crude oil profits alone, at $60 extra per barrel with no real increase in their process of extracting that oil, whereas if anything via technology, automation and labor efficiency improvements it's taking less overall human effort to extract each crude barrel of oil (even from oily sand). $60 * gross oil barrels = net extra profits within just the last year. $60 * 31e9 = $1860e9 ($1.86 trillion in surplus profit for 2008) As I'd said, this doesn't even include any portion of their previously established profit margins of past years, or the ongoing secondary cost impacts and thus collateral inflation upon most everything else (such as water), not to forget those having died and others dieing as a direct result of such energy profit takings. In total we’re looking at having to fork out at least an extra $3 trillion in just the last year alone, and likely $5 trillion for this next inflated year whereas consumer products, food, housing and services manage to catch up to their previous plus recent impact of their having to do business with such artificially higher cost of energy and water. Expect those pesky energy and food riots, plus a whole lot worse things to come, just like having been orchestrated by the mostly Semitic Third Reich DARPA and by those brown-nosed minions of their faith-based puppeteers in charge of squeezing your private parts. Soon enough, the final straw may come when beer cost $12 per 6-pack, cup of joe at $5 and road fuel running $10/gallon (private aviation fuel with local and federal tax and airport usage surcharge is likely to hit that $10 mark within the year), then what? On May 7, 8:04 am, Williamknowsbest wrote: Please see http://www.usoal.com I have perfected low-cost solar panels. Terrestrial solar is the first step. Given the nature of PV cells, its easiest to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen plus coal equals crude oil, methane and char. Char plus oxygen equals carbon dioxide. CO plus hydrogen equals methanol. Methane plus oxygen equals methanol. Dehydrate methanol and get iso-octane. Add the iso-octane to the crude oil and get light crude oil. I have two facilities under construction in Indonesia that each are planned to produce 200,000 barrels per day. I am selling 20 forward contracts from each of the two facilities that are under constrution in Indonesia. Each contract sells 10,000 barrels of oil for $750,000. with $250,000 deposit on 10,000 barrels of oil with a balance of $500,000 due on delivery in 60 months. At that time if a barrel of oil sells for $125 - this contract will be worth $1,250,000 - which means after paying the $500,000 for the oil, you pocket $750,000 on your original $250,000 investment. Of course if oil drops to less than $75 per barrel at the time you take delivery, you won't make any money. I will build 42 facilities like this over the next 14 years. This is enough to produce 8% of the world's crude oil needs. I will also buy space launch assets from various aerospace contractors to built a 7 element RLV capable of putting 500 metric tons into LEO. A 3 element version puts 225 tons into LEO, and a one element version with inline upper stage puts 75 tons into LEO. This vehicle consists of a stretched ET with an aerospike engine at its base, using 5 RS-68 pumpsets. Each flight element masses 1,000 tons at lift off, produces 1,500 tons of thrust at lift off, and carries 880 metric tons of propellant. They are also equipped with cross-feed to implement a unique staging approach I have created, but found out that others have thought of the same thing in the past. All elements are fully recovered and reused. The 500 ton version orbits a thin film concentrator that focuses light onto a multi-spectral PV array that operates at 5,000x solar intensity. The PV array drives a free-electron laser that produces laser energy at very high efficiencies. The laser beam uses holographic techniques and nonlinear optical media along with adaptive optics to beam energy to the 42 solar panel powered coal to liquid facilities located around the world. This increases hyrogen and oxygen output by 16x. A portion of this is used to increase oil output to 700,000 b/d per facility - providing 35% of the world's crude oil. The balance of the increase is used to create hyrogen gas which s used directly as a fuel., This provides the equivalent of 1,250,000 b/d per facility. Which exceeds the current demand for energy. 4,000 satellites each generating 6,000 MW of laser power are place in GEO and operated to feed energy to the coal-to-liquid plants. A fleet of 30 heavy lift booster take 10 days each to be refurbished and reloaded for a flight. Three flights per day are carried out. In four years 4,000 satellites are deployed. It takes 6 years to design and build out the fleet of rockets and the launch center. It takes four years from today to get the first two facilities in production. Revenue from the sale of oil from the first two facilities pays for everything. Once the world's energy prices have been resolved, the fleet of 30 heavy lift boosters are available to place piloted payloads onto orbit, on the moon, on Mars and in the Asteroid belt. Additional revenues may be earned by developing these accessible frontier regions. BTW, you and your DARPA friends have not perfected squat, because otherwise there's be countless commercial and private installations of those nifty Mook PVs doing their clean and renewable energy thing, even if only on behalf of creating LH2 or merely H2. . - Brad Guth |
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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams ofMoon Rocks!
The scammy likes of “Williamknowsbest” (aka William Mook) isn’t
fooling anyone by his “I have two facilities under construction in Indonesia that each are planned to produce 200,000 barrels per day. I am selling 20 forward contracts from each of the two facilities that are under constrution in Indonesia.” Besides the obvious misspelled/ typo “constrution”, notice as to the “each are planned to produce” qualifier, or rather disqualifier. Otherwise, what is it about an offshore investment in Indonesia that can be trusted any better than a line of supposed credit with the Bank of Nigeria? According to lord Mook and his DARPA friends; Anyplace on Earth becomes livable and otherwise survivable if you can afford it. Well lo and behold, that seems to be the prevailing problem for most of us that can’t hardly afford to keep what we’ve got, much less obtain whatever’s necessary for tomorrow. It’s gotten way past whatever pay- back time, and it’s not looking good if the likes of private competitive energy is not being allowed to emerge, or much less given public incentives for their R&D efforts by way of matching dollars. What we’re stuck with is having to import finished fuel products because our oil and coal refinery cartel is either ENRON sick beyond the point of no return, or sticking with their New World Order as their one and only plan of action. However, no matters how rich and powerful you are, it takes fire to fight fire, mostly in the form of many ICEs burning off loads of fossil derived energy that’s getting spendier and even bloodier by the hour. Electrical powered technology, unless using RTGs or via synfuel along with h2o2 created, stored and distributed by way of renewable energy that’s in surplus, isn’t going to fight any significant fire for long. Perhaps creating a multitude of km tall water towers, say at least one for each and every 100 square miles that could also be used as terrific solar energy collectors, as well as each hosting a 250 meter diameter wind turbine would start to make sense. On May 7, 7:56 am, (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote: Jeff If all I had was my dog Rudy I would be a happy camper. Got my conversion van up to snuff. You know Progress Energy Mafia over billed me to the tune of 750 bucks, and will not pay this fraudulent bill. Will be turning my water off this week. Even a mother just having a baby that needs warm bath water they would leave with no power.(Claire Recinello) What chance do I have. Progress Energy billing is fraudulent as proven by chanel 9 news Instead of returning $146,000,000 they are with the help of Florida Governor Charie Crist making people like me pay these overcharged bills. I wonder if Charlie Crist might let these Mafia owned utilities break my legs if they are not paid? It fits. Charlie Crist will make Osceola sheriff "Bob' Hansel the Florida Attorney General. A sheriff that can get away with threatening lives and taking away a citizen's first amendment rights is the right man for that job Oh ya Bert I take it you and others of your kind are not happy campers about joining up with the New World Order, of pandering and otherwise brown- nosing to those in charge of our 3200% fossil energy inflation in the past 60 years, and of most everything else made ENRON and Federal Reserve cartel exclusive, and for the rest of us simply over-priced to the point where only the rich and powerful can afford their water, gas and electrical overhead along with their $5/gallon fuel. Doing the last year's worth of crude oil profits alone, at $60 extra per barrel with no real increase in their process of extracting that oil, whereas if anything via technology, automation and labor efficiency improvements it's taking less overall human effort to extract each crude barrel of oil (even from oily sand). $60 * gross oil barrels = net extra profits within just the last year. $60 * 31e9 = $1860e9 ($1.86 trillion in surplus profit for 2008) As I'd said, this doesn't even include any portion of their previously established profit margins of past years, or the ongoing secondary cost impacts and thus collateral inflation upon most everything else (such as water), not to forget those having died and others dieing as a direct result of such energy profit takings. In total we’re looking at having to fork out at least an extra $3 trillion in just the last year alone, and likely $5 trillion for this next inflated year whereas consumer products, food, housing and services manage to catch up to their previous plus recent impact of their having to do business with such artificially higher cost of energy and water. Expect those pesky energy and food riots, plus a whole lot worse things to come, just like having been orchestrated by the mostly Semitic Third Reich DARPA and by those brown-nosed minions of their faith-based puppeteers in charge of squeezing your private parts. Soon enough, the final straw may come when beer cost $12 per 6-pack, cup of joe at $5 and road fuel running $10/gallon (private aviation fuel with local and federal tax and airport usage surcharge is likely to hit that $10 mark within the year), then what? . - Brad Guth On May 6, 6:17 pm, "jonathan" wrote: I'M MAD AS HELL...... It's just insane. Oil was as low as $8 a barrel under Pres Clinton. It increased by $60 a barrel just in the /last year/. Let's just extrapolate that price increase out a few years, to...say...about the time NASA gets to kick around a few more Moon Rocks in the year 2025 give or take ten? I wonder how history will remember this time, when we had a choice between a New Moon Base, or the Space Solar Power (SSP) program axed by President Bush upon taking office. This is what history will say I believe. Everyone will be looking at our new shiny moon base much like we see the ISS now. Doing /nothing/ except consume every available dollar just to keep the thing flying. And they'll say it's clear the choice for the moon over SSP was a result of two things. The military: seeking the 'high ground' in the missile defense race. Corruption: the big contractors preferring another "Bridge to Nowhere" As they can promise NOTHING in return for the mega-bucks. They haven't promised to cure anything, fix anything or create anything beneficial to the taxpayers except for the 'thing' itself Another ISS, existing only for the sake of it. "Have Faith" The NASA administrator says... There can be no other conclusion, that amidst a new global consensus and awakening on the rapidly warming earth, we abandoned a visionary long-term program, Space Solar Power, that could revolutionize the future of this planet. A program that could not only address the rapidly diminishing oil reserves, but also tackle greenhouse gasses and global warming. A single program, Space Solar Power, that could directly effect two of greatest global threats. Not to mention all that flows from these two threats, such as wars over oil, economic growth and national security. This was the program timeline when Bush canceled SSP Space Solar Power Exploratory Research and Technology program (SERT) a.. 2005: ~100 kW, Free-flyer, demo-scale commercial space b.. 2010: ~100 kW Planetary Surface System, demo-scale, space exploration c.. 2015: ~10 MW Free-flyer, Transportation; Large demo, solar clipper d.. 2020: 1 GW Free-flyer, Full-scale solar power satellite commercial spacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Solar_Power_Exploratory_Research_a... By the time we build that shiny now Moon Base, The United States ...could've been building gigawatt class power satellites...we ...could have been on the threshold of becoming the next energy "Saudi Arabia". Where ...America is the primary source of energy for the world. But no, the military needs a new observation post, to target the Chinese. Are we living in an era of denial, insanity or stupidity? I can't think of any other reason for the choice we're making to go back to the moon instead of using NASA not just to study the atmosphere, but to be the agency responsible for ...improving it as well. Hey, you NASA guys want larger budgets??? SSP is the path to long term public and Congressional support. A Moon Base is a recipe for a much smaller-leaner NASA. Stripped to the bones by a public angry that NASA's ..lack of foresight is exceeded only by it's ..lack of backbone. Jonathan s BTW, my LSE-CM/ISS is still technically doable, as are the expeditions of Venus, and if need be setting up POOF City at Venus L2. I've top posted for the benefit of others. . - BG |
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On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:18:07 -0700 (PDT), BradGuth
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On May 7, 1:53 pm, (Richard Casady) wrote:
On Wed, 7 May 2008 13:18:07 -0700 (PDT), BradGuth wrote: I've top posted for the benefit of others. Funny, I figured you did it because you are an inconsiderate asshole. Casady So, you're admitting to being one of THEM. (no surprise there) .. - Brad Guth |
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"Totorkon" wrote in message ... A 5Gw SPS would have a mass close to 100X the ISS. If its cost were scaled by the same measure, the price tag would exceed twelve trillion dollars. I think the idea is to only build technology demonstrators. To get to the point where the commercial sector can take over once NASA has shown SSP can work and be competitive. Thank you for the reference to sert. The proposal for a couple of 100Kw solar powered hall thrusters seems like a good way to develope practical competitive space solar collectors which could well serve science and give practical experience in the type of challenges SPSs will have to deal with. Increasing the number of robotic expeditions in the 10-20 ton range is a practical way to develope the lower cost launch systems that are necessary to even contemplate an SPS project. One point that should be made is this. When we create relatively 'small' goals, we're left with nothing in the end as with Apollo and now ISS. Ya we got there, and built the thing, but didn't create in the process the kind of comprehensive space infrastructure to really open up space to commercial use. A /large ambitious/ goal such as SSP would require /as prerequisites/ all kinds of basic infrastructure, such as space ports and low cost to orbit advances as well as all kinds of other technology breakthroughs. Maybe using laser transmission instead of microwave and so on. Even is SSP failed in the end, and was beat out by other ideas, we would still be left with what we need to commercialize and truly exploit space. A small goal also inspires little public support, and ends up getting the bare minimum funding with all the compromises that go along with ever diminishing public support as the program goes on. A large, visionary goal, where the public can easily see the tangible benefits down the road can inspire and create a program that gets more and more support as time goes on. As the goal becomes larger and grander, the chance of success grows along with it. Our dependence on fossil fuels, and global warming, are perhaps the two greatest threats to the future of this planet, not to mention our way of life. The future needs to be rescued. And here we have a ...single program...that could potentially be the solution to both. Could potentially 'save the world'. Provided, of course, the nation rallies behind it and gives it the priority and money it deserves. Which in my opinion means a NASA budge an entire order of magnitude larger than what is customary. If not more. Only the 'Big Idea' that 'Saves the World' can accomplish all that. I think SSP is that big idea, and I think the public would jump on board in droves if all the potential benefits to America and the future are fully expressed. There are few problems in the world that would NOT benefit from a large successful SSP program. Which means almost everyone would support it. From the hawks to the doves, from big business and environmentalists all would have a direct interest in it's success. The idea is to come up with a goal with the broadest possible public support. That is the path to success and to creating a better future. s |
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Forgot to mention, it's an oil and blood sucking sprint to the
finish. WWIII will just be another reminder that our "no child left behind" as our national policy of being dumbfounded past the point of no return, has been working like a charm. . - Brad Guth On May 7, 1:18 pm, BradGuth wrote: The scammy likes of “Williamknowsbest” (aka William Mook) isn’t fooling anyone by his “I have two facilities under construction in Indonesia that each are planned to produce 200,000 barrels per day. I am selling 20 forward contracts from each of the two facilities that are under constrution in Indonesia.” Besides the obvious misspelled/ typo “constrution”, notice as to the “each are planned to produce” qualifier, or rather disqualifier. Otherwise, what is it about an offshore investment in Indonesia that can be trusted any better than a line of supposed credit with the Bank of Nigeria? According to lord Mook and his DARPA friends; Anyplace on Earth becomes livable and otherwise survivable if you can afford it. Well lo and behold, that seems to be the prevailing problem for most of us that can’t hardly afford to keep what we’ve got, much less obtain whatever’s necessary for tomorrow. It’s gotten way past whatever pay- back time, and it’s not looking good if the likes of private competitive energy is not being allowed to emerge, or much less given public incentives for their R&D efforts by way of matching dollars. What we’re stuck with is having to import finished fuel products because our oil and coal refinery cartel is either ENRON sick beyond the point of no return, or sticking with their New World Order as their one and only plan of action. However, no matters how rich and powerful you are, it takes fire to fight fire, mostly in the form of many ICEs burning off loads of fossil derived energy that’s getting spendier and even bloodier by the hour. Electrical powered technology, unless using RTGs or via synfuel along with h2o2 created, stored and distributed by way of renewable energy that’s in surplus, isn’t going to fight any significant fire for long. Perhaps creating a multitude of km tall water towers, say at least one for each and every 100 square miles that could also be used as terrific solar energy collectors, as well as each hosting a 250 meter diameter wind turbine would start to make sense. On May 7, 7:56 am, (G=EMC^2 Glazier) wrote: Jeff If all I had was my dog Rudy I would be a happy camper. Got my conversion van up to snuff. You know Progress Energy Mafia over billed me to the tune of 750 bucks, and will not pay this fraudulent bill. Will be turning my water off this week. Even a mother just having a baby that needs warm bath water they would leave with no power.(Claire Recinello) What chance do I have. Progress Energy billing is fraudulent as proven by chanel 9 news Instead of returning $146,000,000 they are with the help of Florida Governor Charie Crist making people like me pay these overcharged bills. I wonder if Charlie Crist might let these Mafia owned utilities break my legs if they are not paid? It fits. Charlie Crist will make Osceola sheriff "Bob' Hansel the Florida Attorney General. A sheriff that can get away with threatening lives and taking away a citizen's first amendment rights is the right man for that job Oh ya Bert I take it you and others of your kind are not happy campers about joining up with the New World Order, of pandering and otherwise brown- nosing to those in charge of our 3200% fossil energy inflation in the past 60 years, and of most everything else made ENRON and Federal Reserve cartel exclusive, and for the rest of us simply over-priced to the point where only the rich and powerful can afford their water, gas and electrical overhead along with their $5/gallon fuel. Doing the last year's worth of crude oil profits alone, at $60 extra per barrel with no real increase in their process of extracting that oil, whereas if anything via technology, automation and labor efficiency improvements it's taking less overall human effort to extract each crude barrel of oil (even from oily sand). $60 * gross oil barrels = net extra profits within just the last year. $60 * 31e9 = $1860e9 ($1.86 trillion in surplus profit for 2008) As I'd said, this doesn't even include any portion of their previously established profit margins of past years, or the ongoing secondary cost impacts and thus collateral inflation upon most everything else (such as water), not to forget those having died and others dieing as a direct result of such energy profit takings. In total we’re looking at having to fork out at least an extra $3 trillion in just the last year alone, and likely $5 trillion for this next inflated year whereas consumer products, food, housing and services manage to catch up to their previous plus recent impact of their having to do business with such artificially higher cost of energy and water. Expect those pesky energy and food riots, plus a whole lot worse things to come, just like having been orchestrated by the mostly Semitic Third Reich DARPA and by those brown-nosed minions of their faith-based puppeteers in charge of squeezing your private parts. Soon enough, the final straw may come when beer cost $12 per 6-pack, cup of joe at $5 and road fuel running $10/gallon (private aviation fuel with local and federal tax and airport usage surcharge is likely to hit that $10 mark within the year), then what? . - Brad Guth On May 6, 6:17 pm, "jonathan" wrote: I'M MAD AS HELL...... It's just insane. Oil was as low as $8 a barrel under Pres Clinton. It increased by $60 a barrel just in the /last year/. Let's just extrapolate that price increase out a few years, to...say...about the time NASA gets to kick around a few more Moon Rocks in the year 2025 give or take ten? I wonder how history will remember this time, when we had a choice between a New Moon Base, or the Space Solar Power (SSP) program axed by President Bush upon taking office. This is what history will say I believe. Everyone will be looking at our new shiny moon base much like we see the ISS now. Doing /nothing/ except consume every available dollar just to keep the thing flying. And they'll say it's clear the choice for the moon over SSP was a result of two things. The military: seeking the 'high ground' in the missile defense race. Corruption: the big contractors preferring another "Bridge to Nowhere" As they can promise NOTHING in return for the mega-bucks. They haven't promised to cure anything, fix anything or create anything beneficial to the taxpayers except for the 'thing' itself Another ISS, existing only for the sake of it. "Have Faith" The NASA administrator says.... There can be no other conclusion, that amidst a new global consensus and awakening on the rapidly warming earth, we abandoned a visionary long-term program, Space Solar Power, that could revolutionize the future of this planet. A program that could not only address the rapidly diminishing oil reserves, but also tackle greenhouse gasses and global warming. A single program, Space Solar Power, that could directly effect two of greatest global threats. Not to mention all that flows from these two threats, such as wars over oil, economic growth and national security. This was the program timeline when Bush canceled SSP Space Solar Power Exploratory Research and Technology program (SERT) a.. 2005: ~100 kW, Free-flyer, demo-scale commercial space b.. 2010: ~100 kW Planetary Surface System, demo-scale, space exploration c.. 2015: ~10 MW Free-flyer, Transportation; Large demo, solar clipper d.. 2020: 1 GW Free-flyer, Full-scale solar power satellite commercial spacehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Solar_Power_Exploratory_Research_a.... By the time we build that shiny now Moon Base, The United States ...could've been building gigawatt class power satellites...we ...could have been on the threshold of becoming the next energy "Saudi Arabia". Where ...America is the primary source of energy for the world. But no, the military needs a new observation post, to target the Chinese.. Are we living in an era of denial, insanity or stupidity? I can't think of any other reason for the choice we're making to go back to the moon instead of using NASA not just to study the atmosphere, but to be the agency responsible for ...improving it as well. Hey, you NASA guys want larger budgets??? SSP is the path to long term public and Congressional support. A Moon Base is a recipe for a much smaller-leaner NASA. Stripped to the bones by a public angry that NASA's ..lack of foresight is exceeded only by it's ..lack of backbone. Jonathan s BTW, my LSE-CM/ISS is still technically doable, as are the expeditions of Venus, and if need be setting up POOF City at Venus L2. I've top posted for the benefit of others. . - BG |
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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams ofMoon Rocks!
On May 7, 5:02*pm, "jonathan" wrote:
"Totorkon" wrote in message ... A 5Gw SPS would have a mass close to 100X the ISS. *If its cost were scaled by the same measure, the price tag would exceed twelve trillion dollars. I think the idea is to only build technology demonstrators. To get to the point where the commercial sector can take over once NASA has shown SSP can work and be competitive. Thank you for the reference to sert. *The proposal for a couple of 100Kw solar powered hall thrusters seems like a good way to develope practical competitive space solar collectors which could well serve science and give practical experience in the type of challenges SPSs will have to deal with. Increasing the number of robotic expeditions in the 10-20 ton range is a practical way to develope the lower cost launch systems that are necessary to even contemplate an SPS project. One point that should be made is this. When we create relatively 'small' goals, we're left with nothing in the end as with Apollo and now ISS. Ya we got there, and built the thing, but didn't create in the process the kind of comprehensive space infrastructure to really open up space to commercial use. A /large ambitious/ goal such as SSP would require /as prerequisites/ all kinds of basic infrastructure, such as space ports and low cost to orbit advances as well as all kinds of other technology breakthroughs. Maybe using laser transmission instead of microwave and so on. Even is SSP failed in the end, and was beat out by other ideas, we would still be left with what we need to commercialize and truly exploit space. A small goal also inspires little public support, and ends up getting the bare minimum funding with all the compromises that go along with ever diminishing public support as the program goes on. A large, visionary goal, where the public can easily see the tangible benefits down the road can inspire and create a program that gets more and more support as time goes on. As the goal becomes larger and grander, the chance of success grows along with it. Our dependence on fossil fuels, and global warming, are perhaps the two greatest threats to the future of this planet, not to mention our way of life. The future needs to be rescued. And here we have a ...single program...that could potentially be the solution to both. Could potentially 'save the world'. Provided, of course, the nation rallies behind it and gives it the priority and money it deserves. Which in my opinion means a NASA budge an entire order of magnitude larger than what is customary. If not more. Only the 'Big Idea' that 'Saves the World' can accomplish all that. I think SSP is that big idea, and I think the public would jump on board in droves if all the potential benefits to America and the future are fully expressed. There are few problems in the world that would NOT benefit from a large successful SSP program. Which means almost everyone would support it. From the hawks to the doves, from big business and environmentalists all would have a direct interest in it's success. The idea is to come up with a goal with the broadest possible public support. |
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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams ofMoon Rocks!
On May 5, 10:25 pm, Poetic Justice -n-
Dog.com wrote: eyeball wrote: On May 6, 9:17 pm, "jonathan" wrote: I'M MAD AS HELL...... It's just insane. Oil was as low as $8 a barrel under Pres Clinton. It increased by $60 a barrel just in the /last year/. That's how long since the "New sheriff Pelosi got to town" Remember her telling us that she was going to ride herd on Bush and that Pelosi would get gas prices down..... It looks like Democrats couldn't live up to the promise. What happened to Bush's promise in 2000 to use his connections with the Saudis to keep oil prices down? |
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... OIL has Doubled in One Year! $120 bbl While NASA Dreams of Moon Rocks!
"Lloyd" wrote in message ... What happened to Bush's promise in 2000 to use his connections with the Saudis to keep oil prices down? It's *working*. The demand has skyrocketed, particularly because of China. We should have seen these prices years ago. ** Posted from http://www.teranews.com ** |
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