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

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.
.

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