Keith Henson
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[These have some connection to power satellites. If we get the first,
power satellites are a trivial addition. The second is a way to keep
space launch infrastructure from being trashed.]
I was on a Webnar last night where they were talking about various
ways to cope with climate change. To my surprise, they mention
space-based under radiation management. I have known about that for a
long time, Robert Kennedy's Dyson dots at L2. As I recall, that takes
about 200 million tons. Talk about a big project, 10 million tons a
year off the moon, or an asteroid and hauled out to L2 for 20 years.
If you tried to do it from the Earth, it would take something in the
range of 4 million Starship launches. 160 years at 25,000 flights a
year.
Another piece of news, my patent lawyer told me that the patent office
has allowed my idea of putting TEA in the top of the fuel tank on
LNB/LOX rockets. This way a leak will cause a huge fire rather than
the LOX mixing with the LNG and causing an explosion up to half the
Hiroshima bomb.
It is the fastest I have ever had a patent go through. I think they
have a policy to expedite old geezers like me.
Keith