Re: Long cables to power "ioncraft" to orbit?
- From: "Asimov" <Asimov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tuesday, 17 May 2005 22:38:24 -500
"mmeron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" bravely wrote to "All" (17 May 05 23:55:59)
--- on the heady topic of "Re: Long cables to power "ioncraft" to orbit?"
mm> From: mmeron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mm> Xref: aeinews sci.astro:60237 sci.space.policy:6441 sci.physics:206464
mm> sci.electronics.design:17243 sci.electronics.misc:19127
mm> In article <pan.2005.05.17.23.40.11.949817@xxxxxxxxxxx>, Rich Grise
mm> <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >On Tue, 17 May 2005 12:53:31 -0700,
mm> Robert Clark wrote: >
>> The problem with them is their power supplies are much heavy than the
>> weight they can lift. But why not leave the power supply on the ground and
>> connect it to the craft by long power cables?
>
>Because 100 miles of copper power cable is even heavier?
>
mm> I've been wondering how long it'll take before somebody states the
mm> obvious.
No problem is too big for nuclear power! Forget the cables, use some
fissile materials.
BTW wasn't 2 gigawatts the amount of power used by the flux capacitor
in Back to the Future's Delorean?
A*s*i*m*o*v
.... I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
.
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