Re: Solar-hydrogen home power system?

From: Anthony Matonak (res04ijs_at_gte.net)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:07:10 GMT

Ray Drouillard wrote:
> "Dan Bloomquist" <EXTRApublic21@lakeweb.com> wrote in message
...
>>SSP on the other hand will likely never be equitable. Just the
>>transmitter at 24,000 miles would have to be kilometers in area.
>>Boosting stuff into far orbit is very very expensive.
>
> It isn't going to work economically unless we either put up a beanstalk,
> or put some factories on the moon and use a mass driver to fling the
> parts to high Earth orbit.

I don't see any reason why a small fleet of low orbit sats couldn't
work. They would have to use something like phased array antennas
to focus the beams and hand off one to the next as they pass over
the receivers. Mass drivers (i.e. Space Guns) could be used to boost
raw materials and the PV cells/panels could be manufactured in space.

If it does turn out that even the raw materials have to come from
space then it's probably cheaper to alter the course of one of the
apollo asteroids so that it winds up in an appropriate orbit around
Earth.

Anthony

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