Solar Power Satellites

[John Clark]

This article doesn't contain many details and I'm skeptical they've actually made it practical, but I'd love to be proven wrong. However there is one thing you can be absolutely certain of, if Solar Power Satellites really can provide cheap clean safe reusable power then environmentalists will oppose it with every fiber of their being.

First ever beaming of orbital solar power

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It is practical from an engineering standpoint. I am a follower of the late, physics professor Gerry O'Neil, and others who have long, proposed this technology. Having stated this, let us never forget the age we live in, for Christ's sake! (Expression). 

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I am an enthusiast, for ocean wind power based on a IEA article from October 2019.

This:

 Offshore Wind Outlook 2019 – Analysis - IEA

IF, we choose to harvest the ocean winds, we have the promise of about 11 times the potential energy produced by our species, during the year 2018. What's the big drawback then? Well, basically Russia and China shutting down ocean platforms with drone submarines. We'll need protection from that attack. Power shutdowns could become chronic with this!

 The same with Solar Sats in Geosynchronous orbit. We'll have to make for ourselves drone clean-up craft by the thousands, to clear up the swarms of debris left from an attack from a hostile. All that shit flying about at fast speeds would likely preclude any Space Program by anybody, let alone, power sats! Lights out dirty, Иностранец, laowai!!!  

Our age, out of an abundance of caution, precludes doing power sats and maybe ocean wind arrays, because of human perversity, and I ain't talking about sex, either.  

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[John Clark]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2023 at 7:21 PM 'spudb...@aol.com' via Everything List <everyth...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

> It is practical from an engineering standpoint. I am a follower of the late, physics professor Gerry O'Neil, and others who have long, proposed this technology.

I know, but O'Neil propose that the bulk of the material that would make up a Solar Power Satellite would come from lunar material by way of a mass driver set up on the moon, that way only light high-value things like advanced microchips would need to climb out of Earth's very steep gravity well. I still think that if power satellites can ever be made practical it will be by using O'Neill's approach, but for some reason most modern advocates want to launch everything from the Earth and I don't think that will work.  

> IF, we choose to harvest the ocean winds, we have the promise of about 11 times the potential energy produced by our species, during the year 2018. What's the big drawback then?

Environmentalists. If it works they will say it would disrupt wind and ocean currents, is ugly, and kills little birdies, and so should be dismantled immediately. The only type of large energy project they like are the ones that don't work.

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jon

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I don't disagree with your summation. At this point we shall continue to muddle along with The Fossil, and likely rooftop solar + storage, until someone actually produces fail-safe nukes. I am not sure that deep geothermal is achievable, or if it will cause quakes? 

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