Re: Space Solar Power - A possible way of Reducing Rectenna size?

"Alex Terrell" <alexterrell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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:On 28 Jan, 15:25, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> Ian Stirling <r...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote::Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :> "Ian Parker" <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:> :> :
:> :> :Yes it would be an extremely powerful weapon - potentially. Some means
:> :> :would have to be deviesd of making the project international.
:> :>
:> :> And hence seal its doom.
:> :>
:> :> :The
:> :> :software could contain safeguards that would prevent misuse.
:> :>
:> :> Which can always be defeated.
:> :>
:> :> :Aircraft
:> :> :are now being euiped with autopilots which would physically prevent
:> :> :them from being flown into tall buildings.
:> :>
:> :> Really? How's that supposed to work? There is, so far as I know, no
:> :> international 'database of tall ***'.
:> :>
:> :> :Perhaps something similar
:> :> :could be attempted here.
:> :>
:> :> The only way to prevent such a system from being used as a weapon
:> :> someone is to somehow build it in such a way that it CANNOT be used as
:> :> a weapon.
:> :>
:> :> This pretty much says what you have to build is a relatively small
:> :> number of very large SPS that are diffraction limited with regard to
:> :> how much power they can put on the ground. This is going to require
:> :> large rectenna on the ground.
:> :
:> :And are not visible from the same bit of earth, otherwise you can
:> :synthesise a large dish.
:>
:> That's why I included "relatively small number". So that even if you
:> put all of them together you can't get a viable weapon out of it.
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:Can you tell me what civilian technologies have been suppressed
:because it is theoretically possible to make a weapon out of them?

I could, but then I'd have to kill you...

:Technologies have been adopted since the stone age both because of,
:and despite their military use. Its potential for use as a weapon will
:not stop space solar power.

Of course it will. If it's too easy to use it as a weapon, treaties
will prohibit it. This assumes, of course, that the economics ever
get to the point where it's a feasible alternative (and I
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