Re: "Concerned citizens" only hope for SPS......by Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill

Len Lekx <LFLekx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:On Fri, 27 Oct 2006 08:24:45 GMT, Fred J. McCall
:<fmccall@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:
:>:>thin pieces of steel or copper wire, etc.) into your microwave oven and
:>:>you'll quickly see just how efficient the reconversion to electricity
:>: You're kidding, right...? By that reasoning, you can't get
:>Uh, he's AGREEING that
:
: Yes, I've already been told that. The way I read it, it appeared
:that he was saying that you couldn't efficiently get electricity out
:of a microwave beam, because you can't light up an electric light-bulb
:by sticking it in a microwave oven. Never mind that the output of the
:oven is pulsed instead of continuous... never mind that conversion
:will entail more than making a loop for current to flow... and never
:mind that DC-to-DC conversion tests were done in the 70s, which
:resulted in an 80% efficiency.

No, he was and is saying just the reverse. That's why you don't put
metal in the beam cavity.

This is really an unthinking religious issue for you, isn't it?

--
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable
man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,
all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
--George Bernard Shaw
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