Re: Super-heavy lift reusable launcher

Ian Parker <ianparker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:On 10 Aug, 11:50, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>
:> :On 9 Aug, 23:35, Fred J. McCall <fmcc...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :> Ian Parker <ianpark...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:> :>
:> :> :
:> :> :You are assuming that heavy lift is need for SSP. In fact what you
:> :> :require is the phase locking of small (a few Kw) units.
:> :> :
:> :>
:> :> That may be what YOU require, but is anyone proposing building one
:> :> that way?
:> :>
:> :> Why do I doubt it?
:> :>
:> :
:> :Its the onlt logical way to do it. Having large parabolic mirrors at
:> :GEO is totally impractical.
:> :
:>
:> Oh, is it?  Why is that?
:>
:> While you're at it, why do you need "large parabolic mirrors at GEO"
:> for SSP?
:>
:> --
:> "Some people get lost in thought because it's such unfamiliar
:>  territory."
:>                                       --G. Behn
:
:There are 2 basic approaches to beaming energy. One is to have a large
:fixed mirror. The other is a phase locked array. I am discussing phase
:conjugation and it is very interesting. Instinct tells me that a large
:fixed mirror cannot be the way forward.
:

True, but that is primarily because using visible light for beaming
power is not "the way forward". How do you propose to solve the minor
problem with that stuff called 'cloud cover'?

All this was worked out long ago. There's no reason to change it now.

--
"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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