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On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
A 500 meter diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 785.4 litres of volume and efficiently folds into a 523 mm diameter sphere that weights 942.5 kg. Placed into a polar sunrise sunset orbit, in constant sunlight with a 1 tonne launcher, it inflates to 500 meter diameter using solar power.

It collects 268.6 megawatts of power on orbit around Earth. It ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec It absorbs light energy efficiently from the sun, and fires up an array of ion engines that eject 37.3 grams/sec of propellant producing 456.6 kgf of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

The satellite flies to GEO from LEO and takes up a stationary orbit around Earth. There is beams 268.6 watts to a large number of points on Earth in various amounts simultaneously, for $0.18 per kWh. Each satellite earns $423.8 million per year and is worth $4.2 billion the day its turned on.

Three satellites located at the prime meridian above the equator, (London) and at East 120 degrees (Hangzhou) and at West 120 degrees (Los Angeles). This network delivers power to wherever its needed on Earth, up to 805.8 MW and at $0.18 per kWh is worth $12.6 billion the day it is operational.

Using similar technology, a 5 km diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 78.54 cubic meters of space and efficiently folds into a 5,320 mm diameter sphere that weighs 94.25 tonnes. Placed into LEO polar orbit, in constant sunlight, with a 100 tonne launcher, it inflates to 5 km diameter using solar power.

It collectes 26.86 billion watts on orbit around Earth, and ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec. . It absorbs light energy efficintly from the sun across the range of visible colours, and fires up an array ion engines that eject 3.73 kg/sec of propellant producing 45.65 tonnes force of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

Sending an inflatable optical probe from Earth to Jupiter, to use gravity assist to enter a highly elliptical orbit above the solar poles, which at perihelion is circularised using solar sail technology, is the first step in creating a highly efficient solar powered system.

A solar pumped laser at 1/50th AU, operating at 3.42 MW per square meter, is 2500x solar intensity, which is outlined in my solar energy patent, and routinely achieved in the 1990s in my shop.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20050051205

US 7081584

An emitter operating at 250 nm wavelength over a distance of 800 AU can form a spot efficiently that's 5 km in diameter using an objective that's 5 km in diameter.

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip...0.1063/1.93625
http://news.mit.edu/2013/chips-that-...eer-light-0109
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-con...aper_R05.p df


It takes 6.24 km/sec from LEO to enter a transfer orbit from Earth to Jupiter. It takes 18.28 minutes to boost from LEO to Jupiter transfer, and 3..98 tonnes. It takes 2.736 years to fly from Earth to Jupiter, and from there it is tossed into an orbit with a perihelion of 0.02 AU. This takes another 2.118 years.

At perihelion this sphere produces 67.15 terawatts of power and can form a beam with a spot size 9.1 meters in diameter at 1 AU distance! So, a very efficient power link is made between Earth and the Sun orbiting power satellite. 22.38 terawatts of power are now transmitted simultaneously through the three smaller satellites which now act to redirect the laser energy arriving from the Sun.

The surface absorbs the full spectrum of sunlight, and powers an array of UV lasers operating at the 350 nm wavelength, can efficiently send energy to a similar sphere sent to 1 AU distance, equipped to efficiently absorb and generate 350 nm wavelength energy.

At $0.01 per KWh, 67.15 billion kW generate 588.6 trillion kWh per year. At $0.01 per kWh this is $5.886 trillion per year. $0.01 per kWh is $16.95 per barrel of crude. At $5.19 per watt 67.15 trillion watts creates a value of 4.48x larger than the economy of today. This is $404.1 trillion per year. $54,756 per person per year.

A laser sustained rocket with a 9.2 km/sec exhaust speed, is capable ofputting up 497.5 tonnes at 21.05 billion watts. It masses 311.15 tonnes at take off, weighs 14.47 tonnes empty, carries 196.7 tonnes propellant and carries 100 tonnes to orbit. 3,190 ships like this could be flying simultaneously throughout the world.

Depending on its long-range order Silicene melts in ranges from 1700 K to 3600 K - quite a range. but well above the 1687 K melting point of bulk silicon. This stems from the fat that silicene modes of movement are constrained and can radiate away energy before molecular bonds are disrupted.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.3828.pdf

Further, by arranging bond energie appropriately its possible to create photonic diodes, materials that permit passage of photons in one direction only. Think of these as highly reflective one way mirrors!

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...chips-possible

Now, at 2% the distance of Earth from the sun, or at 0.02 AU, sunlight rises from 1368 W/m2 to 3.42 million W/m2. Now a black body radiating at this power is 394.1 K at Earth orbit and 2,786.8 K at 0.02 AU.

Now a sphere is 4x the surface area of a plate the same diameter. So, when energy is efficiently conducted from one spot of a sphere to all others, a solar heated sphere at 1 AU falls to 278.7 K and at 0.02 AU to 1,970.6 K. Now this is for a perfectly absorbing body. If we have a body that absorbs only 5% of the energy and reflects away 95% of the energy (something polished aluminum does routinely) temperatures can fall even further. At 1 AU a system that radiates 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, is only 13.93 K whilst at 0.02 AU a spherical shell that radiates away 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, and makes use of the other 95% operates at 98.53 K a littel above the boiling point of liquid oxygen.

Different dopants within silicene structure give makers the ability to tune its band gap. With a tunable band gap, specific electronic components are made-to-order for applications that require specific band gaps. The band gap can span the range from FET and very long microwave applications to UV and Xray bands.

The slight buckling of the hexagonal rings of silicon in silicene also may be engineered to produce materials that give variable material properties as well.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014...able-materials

A micron thick film of silicene with an average atomic separation of 0.41 nm, mean 2,439 layers of silicene exists within that film. This gives us substantial capacities to engineer this film in a variety of ways.

A spherical shell 50 meters in diameter and 1 micron thick masses 18.29 kg. With 3 atoms per logical function, this is 651.38 moles - sufficient to form 3.92 x 10^26 elements. Providing a substantial capability for computing signal processing and data storage and retrieval. A 50 meter diameter sphere converting 95% of incident sunlight to useful power generates 5.1 MW of power which can then be used to radiate power to Earth forming virtual communications cells with conventional wireless equipment- as a communications satellite. The 50 meter diameter sphere can also detect energy ariving at the sphere. 50 satellites mass 914.5 kg and cen be put up in a single launch - transforming global communications and capturing the $4 trillion per year telecom marketplace.

A trio of 500 meter diameter spheres sets up the first step in a power network.

A single 5000 meter diameter sphere, dropped into a 0.02 AU orbit, transforms global energy.

The use of laser energised rocketry and photonic thrusters, makes space travel commonplace.

This can all be done in less than five years with very little invested at the outset.

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
A 500 meter diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 785.4 litres of volume and efficiently folds into a 523 mm diameter sphere that weights 942.5 kg. Placed into a polar sunrise sunset orbit, in constant sunlight with a 1 tonne launcher, it inflates to 500 meter diameter using solar power.

It collects 268.6 megawatts of power on orbit around Earth. It ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec It absorbs light energy efficiently from the sun, and fires up an array of ion engines that eject 37.3 grams/sec of propellant producing 456.6 kgf of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

The satellite flies to GEO from LEO and takes up a stationary orbit around Earth. There is beams 268.6 watts to a large number of points on Earth in various amounts simultaneously, for $0.18 per kWh. Each satellite earns $423.8 million per year and is worth $4.2 billion the day its turned on.

Three satellites located at the prime meridian above the equator, (London) and at East 120 degrees (Hangzhou) and at West 120 degrees (Los Angeles). This network delivers power to wherever its needed on Earth, up to 805.8 MW and at $0.18 per kWh is worth $12.6 billion the day it is operational.

Using similar technology, a 5 km diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 78.54 cubic meters of space and efficiently folds into a 5,320 mm diameter sphere that weighs 94.25 tonnes. Placed into LEO polar orbit, in constant sunlight, with a 100 tonne launcher, it inflates to 5 km diameter using solar power.

It collectes 26.86 billion watts on orbit around Earth, and ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec. . It absorbs light energy efficintly from the sun across the range of visible colours, and fires up an array ion engines that eject 3.73 kg/sec of propellant producing 45.65 tonnes force of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

Sending an inflatable optical probe from Earth to Jupiter, to use gravity assist to enter a highly elliptical orbit above the solar poles, which at perihelion is circularised using solar sail technology, is the first step in creating a highly efficient solar powered system.

A solar pumped laser at 1/50th AU, operating at 3.42 MW per square meter, is 2500x solar intensity, which is outlined in my solar energy patent, and routinely achieved in the 1990s in my shop.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20050051205

US 7081584

An emitter operating at 250 nm wavelength over a distance of 800 AU can form a spot efficiently that's 5 km in diameter using an objective that's 5 km in diameter.

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip...0.1063/1.93625
http://news.mit.edu/2013/chips-that-...eer-light-0109
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-con...aper_R05.p df


It takes 6.24 km/sec from LEO to enter a transfer orbit from Earth to Jupiter. It takes 18.28 minutes to boost from LEO to Jupiter transfer, and 3.98 tonnes. It takes 2.736 years to fly from Earth to Jupiter, and from there it is tossed into an orbit with a perihelion of 0.02 AU. This takes another 2.118 years.

At perihelion this sphere produces 67.15 terawatts of power and can form a beam with a spot size 9.1 meters in diameter at 1 AU distance! So, a very efficient power link is made between Earth and the Sun orbiting power satellite. 22.38 terawatts of power are now transmitted simultaneously through the three smaller satellites which now act to redirect the laser energy arriving from the Sun.

The surface absorbs the full spectrum of sunlight, and powers an array of UV lasers operating at the 350 nm wavelength, can efficiently send energy to a similar sphere sent to 1 AU distance, equipped to efficiently absorb and generate 350 nm wavelength energy.

At $0.01 per KWh, 67.15 billion kW generate 588.6 trillion kWh per year.. At $0.01 per kWh this is $5.886 trillion per year. $0.01 per kWh is $16..95 per barrel of crude. At $5.19 per watt 67.15 trillion watts creates a value of 4.48x larger than the economy of today. This is $404.1 trillion per year. $54,756 per person per year.

A laser sustained rocket with a 9.2 km/sec exhaust speed, is capable ofputting up 497.5 tonnes at 21.05 billion watts. It masses 311.15 tonnes at take off, weighs 14.47 tonnes empty, carries 196.7 tonnes propellant and carries 100 tonnes to orbit. 3,190 ships like this could be flying simultaneously throughout the world.

Depending on its long-range order Silicene melts in ranges from 1700 K to 3600 K - quite a range. but well above the 1687 K melting point of bulk silicon. This stems from the fat that silicene modes of movement are constrained and can radiate away energy before molecular bonds are disrupted.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.3828.pdf

Further, by arranging bond energie appropriately its possible to create photonic diodes, materials that permit passage of photons in one direction only. Think of these as highly reflective one way mirrors!

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...chips-possible

Now, at 2% the distance of Earth from the sun, or at 0.02 AU, sunlight rises from 1368 W/m2 to 3.42 million W/m2. Now a black body radiating at this power is 394.1 K at Earth orbit and 2,786.8 K at 0.02 AU.

Now a sphere is 4x the surface area of a plate the same diameter. So, when energy is efficiently conducted from one spot of a sphere to all others, a solar heated sphere at 1 AU falls to 278.7 K and at 0.02 AU to 1,970.6 K.. Now this is for a perfectly absorbing body. If we have a body that absorbs only 5% of the energy and reflects away 95% of the energy (something polished aluminum does routinely) temperatures can fall even further. At 1 AU a system that radiates 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, is only 13.93 K whilst at 0.02 AU a spherical shell that radiates away 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, and makes use of the other 95% operates at 98.53 K a littel above the boiling point of liquid oxygen.

Different dopants within silicene structure give makers the ability to tune its band gap. With a tunable band gap, specific electronic components are made-to-order for applications that require specific band gaps. The band gap can span the range from FET and very long microwave applications to UV and Xray bands.

The slight buckling of the hexagonal rings of silicon in silicene also may be engineered to produce materials that give variable material properties as well.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014...able-materials

A micron thick film of silicene with an average atomic separation of 0.41 nm, mean 2,439 layers of silicene exists within that film. This gives us substantial capacities to engineer this film in a variety of ways.

A spherical shell 50 meters in diameter and 1 micron thick masses 18.29 kg. With 3 atoms per logical function, this is 651.38 moles - sufficient to form 3.92 x 10^26 elements. Providing a substantial capability for computing signal processing and data storage and retrieval. A 50 meter diameter sphere converting 95% of incident sunlight to useful power generates 5.1 MW of power which can then be used to radiate power to Earth forming virtual communications cells with conventional wireless equipment- as a communications satellite. The 50 meter diameter sphere can also detect energy ariving at the sphere. 50 satellites mass 914.5 kg and cen be put up in a single launch - transforming global communications and capturing the $4 trillion per year telecom marketplace.

A trio of 500 meter diameter spheres sets up the first step in a power network.

A single 5000 meter diameter sphere, dropped into a 0.02 AU orbit, transforms global energy.

The use of laser energised rocketry and photonic thrusters, makes space travel commonplace.

This can all be done in less than five years with very little invested at the outset.

A 50 meter diameter sphere has a volume of 65,450 cubic meters. The weight of the sphere is 18.29 kg. This is a density of 280 milligrams per cubic meter. 1/4357th the density at sea level. Filling a collapsed film with 15 cubic meters (about 1.4 kg at STP) of hydrogen allows it to rise, and expand, to totally fill the sphere with hydrogen at 55,000 meters. The horizon is 839.4 km away. Another balloon 1678.8 km away would be visble. 230 of these ballons hovering in the mesosphere provide global broadband around the world.

This is very similar to PROJECT LOON by Google, which is being developed here in Christchurch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon

A camera array, similar to the sky surveillance discussion elsewhere, can be turned upside down to observe the Earth with unprecedented fidelity. Today this is done with a large number of modest cameras in an array and whose point spread function is well defined, so they may be combined in various ways. With the device described above, the individual sensing elements are built into the energy conversion elements, to create in effect a 50 meter diameter objective at all wavelengths. A hyper sensor capable of detecting 1.1 cm on the horizon at 840 km distance or 0.74 mm straight down at 55 km distance at 550 nm wavelength.

DARPA incarnation
http://www.gizmag.com/argus-is-darpa...-camers/26078/

INDEGOGO incarnation
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/p...-ball-camera#/

This approach, dispenses with satellite launches. The ability to absorb power at 5 MW store it on board in supercapacitors, and discharge continuously at 2.5 MW not only estimates limits on computing power, amplification limits and transmission limits, but also, using advanced electric propulsion techniques, limits in speed - which gives us the limitations in dealing with jet streams and wind conditions aloft in maintaiing precise positioning using GPS signals or ground based positioning signals to maintain position.

240 of these Loon-like devices give their owners significant abilities to sell a vareity of services throughout the world, not the least of which is the $4 trillion per year telecommunications marketplace. Open source surveillance via a wireless internet substantially improves security of broadly available;

https://www.insecam.org

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
A 500 meter diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 785.4 litres of volume and efficiently folds into a 523 mm diameter sphere that weights 942.5 kg. Placed into a polar sunrise sunset orbit, in constant sunlight with a 1 tonne launcher, it inflates to 500 meter diameter using solar power.

It collects 268.6 megawatts of power on orbit around Earth. It ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec It absorbs light energy efficiently from the sun, and fires up an array of ion engines that eject 37.3 grams/sec of propellant producing 456.6 kgf of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

The satellite flies to GEO from LEO and takes up a stationary orbit around Earth. There is beams 268.6 watts to a large number of points on Earth in various amounts simultaneously, for $0.18 per kWh. Each satellite earns $423.8 million per year and is worth $4.2 billion the day its turned on..

Three satellites located at the prime meridian above the equator, (London) and at East 120 degrees (Hangzhou) and at West 120 degrees (Los Angeles). This network delivers power to wherever its needed on Earth, up to 805.8 MW and at $0.18 per kWh is worth $12.6 billion the day it is operational.

Using similar technology, a 5 km diameter sphere that's 1 micron thick made of structured silicene occupies 78.54 cubic meters of space and efficiently folds into a 5,320 mm diameter sphere that weighs 94.25 tonnes. Placed into LEO polar orbit, in constant sunlight, with a 100 tonne launcher, it inflates to 5 km diameter using solar power.

It collectes 26.86 billion watts on orbit around Earth, and ejects material from its surface at 120 km/sec. . It absorbs light energy efficintly from the sun across the range of visible colours, and fires up an array ion engines that eject 3.73 kg/sec of propellant producing 45.65 tonnes force of thrust, accelerating the satellite at 0.58 gees.

Sending an inflatable optical probe from Earth to Jupiter, to use gravity assist to enter a highly elliptical orbit above the solar poles, which at perihelion is circularised using solar sail technology, is the first step in creating a highly efficient solar powered system.

A solar pumped laser at 1/50th AU, operating at 3.42 MW per square meter, is 2500x solar intensity, which is outlined in my solar energy patent, and routinely achieved in the 1990s in my shop.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20050051205

US 7081584

An emitter operating at 250 nm wavelength over a distance of 800 AU can form a spot efficiently that's 5 km in diameter using an objective that's 5 km in diameter.

http://scitation.aip.org/content/aip...0.1063/1.93625
http://news.mit.edu/2013/chips-that-...eer-light-0109
http://www.deepspace.ucsb.edu/wp-con...aper_R05.p df


It takes 6.24 km/sec from LEO to enter a transfer orbit from Earth to Jupiter. It takes 18.28 minutes to boost from LEO to Jupiter transfer, and 3.98 tonnes. It takes 2.736 years to fly from Earth to Jupiter, and from there it is tossed into an orbit with a perihelion of 0.02 AU. This takes another 2.118 years.

At perihelion this sphere produces 67.15 terawatts of power and can form a beam with a spot size 9.1 meters in diameter at 1 AU distance! So, a very efficient power link is made between Earth and the Sun orbiting power satellite. 22.38 terawatts of power are now transmitted simultaneously through the three smaller satellites which now act to redirect the laser energy arriving from the Sun.

The surface absorbs the full spectrum of sunlight, and powers an array of UV lasers operating at the 350 nm wavelength, can efficiently send energy to a similar sphere sent to 1 AU distance, equipped to efficiently absorb and generate 350 nm wavelength energy.

At $0.01 per KWh, 67.15 billion kW generate 588.6 trillion kWh per year. At $0.01 per kWh this is $5.886 trillion per year. $0.01 per kWh is $16.95 per barrel of crude. At $5.19 per watt 67.15 trillion watts creates a value of 4.48x larger than the economy of today. This is $404.1 trillion per year. $54,756 per person per year.

A laser sustained rocket with a 9.2 km/sec exhaust speed, is capable ofputting up 497.5 tonnes at 21.05 billion watts. It masses 311.15 tonnes at take off, weighs 14.47 tonnes empty, carries 196.7 tonnes propellant and carries 100 tonnes to orbit. 3,190 ships like this could be flying simultaneously throughout the world.

Depending on its long-range order Silicene melts in ranges from 1700 K to 3600 K - quite a range. but well above the 1687 K melting point of bulk silicon. This stems from the fat that silicene modes of movement are constrained and can radiate away energy before molecular bonds are disrupted.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.3828.pdf

Further, by arranging bond energie appropriately its possible to create photonic diodes, materials that permit passage of photons in one direction only. Think of these as highly reflective one way mirrors!

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/1...chips-possible

Now, at 2% the distance of Earth from the sun, or at 0.02 AU, sunlight rises from 1368 W/m2 to 3.42 million W/m2. Now a black body radiating at this power is 394.1 K at Earth orbit and 2,786.8 K at 0.02 AU.

Now a sphere is 4x the surface area of a plate the same diameter. So, when energy is efficiently conducted from one spot of a sphere to all others, a solar heated sphere at 1 AU falls to 278.7 K and at 0.02 AU to 1,970.6 K. Now this is for a perfectly absorbing body. If we have a body that absorbs only 5% of the energy and reflects away 95% of the energy (something polished aluminum does routinely) temperatures can fall even further. At 1 AU a system that radiates 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, is only 13.93 K whilst at 0.02 AU a spherical shell that radiates away 5% of the absorbed energy as heat, and makes use of the other 95% operates at 98.53 K a littel above the boiling point of liquid oxygen.

Different dopants within silicene structure give makers the ability to tune its band gap. With a tunable band gap, specific electronic components are made-to-order for applications that require specific band gaps. The band gap can span the range from FET and very long microwave applications to UV and Xray bands.

The slight buckling of the hexagonal rings of silicon in silicene also may be engineered to produce materials that give variable material properties as well.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014...able-materials

A micron thick film of silicene with an average atomic separation of 0.41 nm, mean 2,439 layers of silicene exists within that film. This gives us substantial capacities to engineer this film in a variety of ways.

A spherical shell 50 meters in diameter and 1 micron thick masses 18.29 kg. With 3 atoms per logical function, this is 651.38 moles - sufficient to form 3.92 x 10^26 elements. Providing a substantial capability for computing signal processing and data storage and retrieval. A 50 meter diameter sphere converting 95% of incident sunlight to useful power generates 5.1 MW of power which can then be used to radiate power to Earth forming virtual communications cells with conventional wireless equipment- as a communications satellite. The 50 meter diameter sphere can also detect energy ariving at the sphere. 50 satellites mass 914.5 kg and cen be put up in a single launch - transforming global communications and capturing the $4 trillion per year telecom marketplace.

A trio of 500 meter diameter spheres sets up the first step in a power network.

A single 5000 meter diameter sphere, dropped into a 0.02 AU orbit, transforms global energy.

The use of laser energised rocketry and photonic thrusters, makes space travel commonplace.

This can all be done in less than five years with very little invested at the outset.

A 50 meter diameter sphere has a volume of 65,450 cubic meters. The weight of the sphere is 18.29 kg. This is a density of 280 milligrams per cubic meter. 1/4357th the density at sea level. Filling a collapsed film with 15 cubic meters (about 1.4 kg at STP) of hydrogen allows it to rise, and expand, to totally fill the sphere with hydrogen at 55,000 meters. The horizon is 839.4 km away. Another balloon 1678.8 km away would be visble. 230 of these ballons hovering in the mesosphere provide global broadband around the world.

This is very similar to PROJECT LOON by Google, which is being developed here in Christchurch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Loon

A camera array, similar to the sky surveillance discussion elsewhere, can be turned upside down to observe the Earth with unprecedented fidelity. Today this is done with a large number of modest cameras in an array and whose point spread function is well defined, so they may be combined in various ways. With the device described above, the individual sensing elements are built into the energy conversion elements, to create in effect a 50 meter diameter objective at all wavelengths. A hyper sensor capable of detecting 1.1 cm on the horizon at 840 km distance or 0.74 mm straight down at 55 km distance at 550 nm wavelength.

DARPA incarnation
http://www.gizmag.com/argus-is-darpa...-camers/26078/

INDEGOGO incarnation
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/p...-ball-camera#/

This approach, dispenses with satellite launches. The ability to absorb power at 5 MW store it on board in supercapacitors, and discharge continuously at 2.5 MW not only estimates limits on computing power, amplification limits and transmission limits, but also, using advanced electric propulsion techniques, limits in speed - which gives us the limitations in dealing with jet streams and wind conditions aloft in maintaiing precise positioning using GPS signals or ground based positioning signals to maintain position.

240 of these Loon-like devices give their owners significant abilities to sell a vareity of services throughout the world, not the least of which is the $4 trillion per year telecommunications marketplace. Open source surveillance via a wireless internet substantially improves security of broadly available;

https://www.insecam.org

An object leaving Earth with a 7.82 km/sec hyperbolic excess velocity arrives at Jupiter 2.729 years later travelling at 7.235 km/sec. Jupiter is moving at 12.714 km/sec. After encountering Jupiter, the object is moving 1.115 km/sec relative to the Sun, and falls into the Sun, arriving at perihelion of 0.02 AU 2.108 years after Jupiter encounter. At 0.02 AU the object is moving at 289.933 km/sec relative to the Sun, and must drop 160.022 km/sec to achieve a stable 129.911 km/sec orbit at 0.02 AU.

A solid state cyclotron of high efficiency built into the film ejects protons and electrons at 5.3% light speed, and with a power of 67.15 trillion watts is capable of ejecting 0.523 kg/sec of hydrogen producing 854.7 tonnes force of thrust. Sufficient to produce 8.6 gees acceleration on a 100 tonne payload, and cutting speed to the required levels expelling 1 tonne of hydrogen gas as energetic protons and electrons during a 31.6 minute interval around perihelion.

http://journals.aps.org/prb/abstract...ysRevB.18.6880

The sun orbiting satellite orbits the Sun over its pole, and uses the gravitational forces of the rotating sun to keep its orbital plane perpendicular to the vector connecting Earth's position and the center of the Sun. This annual precession keeps the laser beam sent to Earth in sight of the Earth at all times.

67.15 TW of collimated or absorbed energy produces 22.82 tonnes of force. So, this can be used to accelerate the objecdt as well, without ejecting mass. This takes 20 hours instead of half an hour at perihelion.

Now in operation 22.82 tonnes is directed radially outward from the Sun's center, and another 22.82 tonnes is directed at right angles toward Earth. In a circular orbit there is 152.30 tonnes of gravity pulling down, countered by an equal centripetal force. The absorbed sunlight, and the collimated beam pull with a force of 32.27 tonnes and the orbital plane is shifted away from the Sun's center by 8.47 degrees

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William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

Jeff
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On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

Jeff
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All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone.
These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
employer, or any organization that I am a member of.

I've been talking about silicene for years, and working actively in the field, pushing it along. Silicene was discovered six years ago and significant work has been done with it since that time. Of course, you are not even aware of it, so you come to beliefs that have no bearing in reality. So, burdened by such a profound ignorance, its impossible for you to see the relevance and importance of this material and its use in space development and its impact on space policy.

In the context of sci.space.policy, silicene and silicane its oxidised cousin, is important because the rocky bodies of the solar system we can reach with our current space travel technology are

oxygen 45%, magnesium 23%, silicon 22%, iron 5.8%, calcium 2.3%, aluminum 2..2%, sodium 0.3%, potassium 0.3%.

Silicene is made of silicon, which is very abundant on the surface of the Moon, Mars and the asteroids.

What is silicene and why is it important?

Silicene a two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, with a hexagonal honeycomb structure similar to that of graphene. So, making use of silicene makes sense since it frees us from a lot of material constraints when we want to build things in space. All because silicon and oxygen is so abundant. Over half the material we have access to is made of these two materials.

Unlike graphene, silicene patterns are not flat. Silicene forms hexagons that buckle in well defined ways. So, coupling between layers in silicene is much stronger than in multilayered graphene which tends to flake apart like graphite. Silicene is very strong stiff and stable, but can also hinge around folds in its crystalline structure with the right kind of cuts. Imagine a hinge or a clamp built on the molecular level. These have been built. The material is a wonder.

The oxidized form of silicene, which are 2D arrays of silica atoms, silicane, makes use oxygen which is even more abundant than silicon! Over half the mass of material available on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, is available for construction. 2D silica has a very different chemical structure from graphene oxide, and is also much stronger! Band gap energies are also modified, and the other abundant materials available allow tuning bandgaps across the x-ray, uv, visible, IR, and radio spectrums! Transparent windows can be made along with dichroic mirrors of exceptional efficiency.

A multi-spectral, multi-layer highly efficient solar panel that is capable of emitting light, heat, radio, uv, x-ray efficiently, as a phased array, is possible using this material. Of course, that's my interest, since designing and building world class solar technology is something I've been involved with over the past 20 years. So, obviously, I'm not only interested, I'm pleased to say I'm at the forefront of this technology.

Long time members of this group may recall I have even written about it in the past in these groups in the 1990s. Of course, despite my work in this area, I've been attacked in this group then and now. Which is what makes posting here such a joy. NOT! lol.

http://www.google.com/patents/US20050051205
https://www.scribd.com/doc/20024019/...to-Mok-FINAL-1

So, check it out - we can build stuff stronger than nanotubes, more capable than silicon, and as abundant as dirt. What's not to like? The Bishop Rings we build in the near future will be built out of silicene and silicane and we'll make use of the bulk of the asteroids, the moon and mars to do so.

http://www.iase.cc/openair.htm

For all these reasons scientists like me who worked on this topic theorised about the existence of silicene and help bring it into existence and are now working to build practical products with it, are excited by it.

Silicene is a recent development. It wasn't until 2010 that the first experiments proved the material actually existed! These experiments proceeded as I described in the 1990s. We used scanning tunneling microscopes to organise silicon in ways that caused the atoms to self-assemble into silicene nanoribbons on a crystalline surface. By organising those ribbons and how they grow, nanoribbons would be weaved into silicene sheets. Oxidise these ribbons and sheets to form silicane. Expose the sheets to a near vacuum plasma of other atoms, and tune their band gap. Rinse and repeat, as in multi-layer GBO films, to accurately control optical properties like birefringence and make highly efficient solar cells that also operate as switchable holographic optical systems capable of a wide range of functionality.

The images produced by STMs proved the existence of silicene in 2010. At that time STM images revealed hexagons in a honeycomb structure similar to that of graphene, but these arrays of silicon were not flat. This is actually beneficial to those who want to engineer origami like structures and features in the material.

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2014...able-materials
http://cohengroup.lassp.cornell.edu/...-metamaterials

Now 2010 was six years ago. By 2015, a silicene field-effect transistor had been invented, and much more is going on in the lab funded by me and others that will very shortly result in fabulous new materials.

http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/....2014.325.html

In the context of these posts here, making controllable switches, including optical diodes as well as electrical diodes, opens up new opportunities for two-dimensional and three-dimensional silicon devices structured at the nanoscale.

Some of the more exciting possibilities include, silicene and silicane solar powered self replicating solar panels capable of positronium energy storage!

We've known since 2012 that Bose Einstein Condensates were possible to form in the solid state using silicene

http://arxiv.org/pdf/1205.5404.pdf

And anyone worth their salt knows what that means! We can use BEC to slow light down!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK6HxdUQm5s

And what happens when you slow light down? Its frequency increases. Energy becomes more localised. In short, you can increase field strength on a nanoscale, to the point where you make positronium. This was a wild speculation until last year, when it was observed in the lab.

http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...30/17/4/043059

and adapted toward the efficient production of Ps.

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/...ld-positronium

The same process that permits visible light to form Ps, can be reversed to take the gamma burst produced by Ps annihilation and lengthen its wavelength to visible light while photonic diodes control its direction so that a collimated beam may be formed across a surface.

So, tiny silicane and silicene machine cells may be made that efficiently absorb sunlight and efficiently store that energy in the form of Positronium.. These cells may then use that absorbed energy to reorganise silicon and oxygen on the surface of world's like ours, into more machine cells. This technology has the ability to transform worlds rather quickly.

A single machine cell thats 230 microns in diameter - is too small to see. However, a shell that is 1 micron thick, and 230 microns in diameter, weighs 365.6 nanograms. 7.86 quadrillion silicon atoms. As a monomolecular layer on a crystalline surface, this is a spot of silicon atomx 41 mm in diameter. Well within the capacity of todays ATF and wafer technologies.

Building a single machine and exposing it to sunlight at the Earth's surface, at 1,000 Watts/m2, gives the cell sufficient energy to generate 41.5 microwatts. Since it takes 45 kJ to process a gram of rock and dirt into silicene or silicane, it takes this self replicating machine cell 396 seconds to double in number given sunlight and dirt. Since there is 12,420 seconds of sunlight per day on average around here (Christchurch NZ) the cells undergo 31.36 replications which is enough to make 1 kg of the cells from each cell starting out. Or, 2.763 billion cells at the end of the day, for each cell you start out with.

Day two nets you 2.763 million metric tons of the material starting with one cell two days earlier. In terms of solar collecting ability, one cell grows to 114.8 square meters in the first day and 317,202.2 sq kilometers by the second day. Spread across the surface of the Earth this capacity is largely invisbile. However this network of collectors has the ability to collect 76.1 kg of Ps per day. It also has the ability to process 2.763 million metric tons of material into anything, utility fog fashion, every 396 seconds when not engaged in Ps production. Of course give it 6 minutes and 16 seconds and you can do both!

To drop from 1 AU to 0.02 AU directly from Earth requires that we slow a spacecraft down from 29.8 km/sec to

V = 29.8 * sqrt( 2/1 - 1/0.51 ) = 29.8 * 0.1980 = 5.90 km/sec.

A difference of 23.9 km/sec.

Now, the semi-major axis of this orbit connecting 0.02 AU and 1.00 AU is 0.51 AU and so its orbital period is 0.51 ^ 1.5 = 0.36421285 years. So, half this time is 66.516 days. That's how long it takes for an object projected from the trailing edge of Earth with a hyperbolic excess velocity of 23..9 km/sec to fall to 0.02 AU on the other side of the Sun, from the point of departure. Of course 66.516 days, Earth will have moved on about 67 degrees from that point of departure, whilst the satellite would have move 180 degrees. So, you can tell where Earth would be.

The velocity at Earth's surface required to project an object with a 23.9 km/sec excess velocity is

V = sqrt( 11.19^2 + 23.90^2 ) = 26.39 km/sec.

Falling from 1 AU to 0.02 AU a satellite picks up speed. By the time it reaches 0.02 AU it is travelling;

V = 29.8 sqrt( 2/0.02 - 1/0.51 ) = 29.8 * 9.9015 = 295.06 km/sec

Now, to maintain a stable circular orbit at 0.02 AU requires that the satellite have a velocity of

V = 29.8 * sqrt(1/.02) = 210.72 km/sec.

This is a difference of 295.06 - 210.72 = 84.34 km/sec.

Now, if we eject material from a rocket at the same speed we want the rocket to achieve, we will always need

u = 1 - 1 / exp( 1 ) = 0.6322 kg of propellant per kg of take off weight.

that means the rest of the vehicle is 1 - 0.6322 = 0.3678 and the ratio of these two weights is

0.6322 / 0.3678 = 1.7183 for propellant and 0.3678 / 0.3678 = 1.0000 for load.

So, if we eject material from the satellite at Earth at 26.39 km/sec and eject material again at 0.02 AU at 83.34 km/sec - we will require a take off weight of;

2.7183 ^ 2 = 7.3891 kg for each kg of satellite left on orbit at 0..02 AU.

So, we have the following break down;

1.0000 kg - satellite weight at 0.02 AU.
1.7183 kg - propellant ejected at 84.34 km/sec.
4.6708 kg - propellant ejected at 26.39 km/sec.

Now the amount of energy required to carry out this operation is;

E2 = 0.5 * 1.7183 * 84.34 ^ 2 MJ = 6,112.16 MJ and
E1 = 0.5 * 4.6708 * 26.39 ^ 2 MJ = 1,626.43 MJ

Et = 6,112.16 + 1,626.43 = 7,738.59 MJ per kg.


The same techniques that are used to slow down and speed up light in combination with controlled bandgaps in silicene and silicane, can be used to make compact particle accelerators that are highly efficient, that eject particles at any desired speed up to near light speeds.

With no collection of solar power during the descent, this will take 86 micrograms of Ps to transport 1 kg into solar orbit. With 76,100 grams of Ps produced per day by the terrestrial system described earlier, its easy to see that 884,884 metric tons of material may be projected from Earth and made to enter solar orbit.

Now only 21% of the energy is needed to leave Earth, while the remainder is needed to circularise the orbit. Now, since the satellite is falling toward the Sun, its perfectly capable of collecting sufficient energy to carry out the second maneuver while in transit. So, this rate can be increased 4.758x - to 4,210,309 metric tons per day.

A single satellite that's 5 km in diameter, communicating with three satellites in GEO each 500 meters in diameter, totalling 200 tonnes mass, I've described earlier. This system can receive 68 TW, about what the entire array of machine cells produce on Earth. However, beamed energy, or Ps transmitted from near the solar surface, can vastly exceed what's possible to achieve on Earth in just a day of operation.

This level of Ps production opens up interstellar travel and space travel generally. It also unlocks the riches of the heavens for us.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/20140...e-in-our-reach
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/indus...s-william-mook

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

Jeff
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Here's another fellow that posts on posts on posts...



I can't figure out whether he's supposed to be selling solvents or IT services. I don't really care, but be consistent dude.

In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

I've been talking about silicene for years,

You've been talking about a lot of things for years.

and working actively in the field, pushing it along.

Just what do you mean by "working actively in the field"? Have you
published peer reviewed papers in any scientific journals on the
subject?

Jeff
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On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 5:49:36 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

I've been talking about silicene for years,

You've been talking about a lot of things for years.

and working actively in the field, pushing it along.

Just what do you mean by "working actively in the field"? Have you
published peer reviewed papers in any scientific journals on the
subject?

Jeff
--
All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone.
These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
employer, or any organization that I am a member of.

I've had ideas, arranged to patent them, and funded research of those who have published peer reviewed research. You have evidence of that in my patents and the research papers I've published. The authors of those papers later published peer reviewed articles. You also have my discussions of topics well before they have been published, then seen publications appear, and finally see either companies I've created sprout up, or patents appear.

In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 5:49:36 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

I've been talking about silicene for years,

You've been talking about a lot of things for years.

and working actively in the field, pushing it along.

Just what do you mean by "working actively in the field"? Have you
published peer reviewed papers in any scientific journals on the
subject?

I've had ideas, arranged to patent them, and funded research of
those who have published peer reviewed research. You have evidence
of that in my patents and the research papers I've published. The
authors of those papers later published peer reviewed articles.
You also have my discussions of topics well before they have been
published, then seen publications appear, and finally see either
companies I've created sprout up, or patents appear.

Cites for "structured silicene" patents that have been granted or links
to abstracts of papers actually published for which you funded the
research?

Jeff
--
All opinions posted by me on Usenet News are mine, and mine alone.
These posts do not reflect the opinions of my family, friends,
employer, or any organization that I am a member of.

In article ,
says...

In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 5:49:36 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

On Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1:18:18 AM UTC+12, Jeff Findley wrote:
In article ,
says...

William Mook wrote:

On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 11:28:49 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Saturday, April 16, 2016 at 9:35:16 AM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:
On Friday, April 15, 2016 at 10:35:24 PM UTC+12, William Mook wrote:

Holy crap. We're back to Mook on Mook on Mook on Mook again...

Yep. Apparantly his brain is on "structured silicene" now.

I've been talking about silicene for years,

You've been talking about a lot of things for years.

and working actively in the field, pushing it along.

Just what do you mean by "working actively in the field"? Have you
published peer reviewed papers in any scientific journals on the
subject?

I've had ideas, arranged to patent them, and funded research of
those who have published peer reviewed research. You have evidence
of that in my patents and the research papers I've published. The
authors of those papers later published peer reviewed articles.
You also have my discussions of topics well before they have been
published, then seen publications appear, and finally see either
companies I've created sprout up, or patents appear.

Cites for "structured silicene" patents that have been granted or links
to abstracts of papers actually published for which you funded the
research?

I'm asking because either Google is broken, or you really haven't done
anything with "structured silicene":

No results found for structured silicene +william +mook.

Jeff
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