Comments on: Solar Power Beamed To Earth From Space?

By: phil

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By: folding solar panel

folding solar panel — Thu, 27 May 2010 01:47:05 +0000

This is very interesting concept. This is will solve our energy problem, if scientists can do that. Don’t forget about technology abuse though.

By: Solar Light

Solar Light — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:53:04 +0000

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By: Stephen D. Covey

Stephen D. Covey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:01:26 +0000

The Russians use a weird kind of orbit called Molniya orbits for communications because much of Russia is too far north – and while putting up extra solar power satellites to do this seems extremely wasteful, perhaps power bounce (relay) satellites in Molniya orbits would make sense.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molniya_orbit

By: Chris Dann

Chris Dann — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:31:33 +0000

The way we transmit power around the Earth is pretty inefficient, I wonder if some of the already existing satellites could be used to bounce power back to the Earth?

By: Stephen D. Covey

Stephen D. Covey — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:59:37 +0000

One minor point: We would place Solar Power Satellites in geostationary orbits above the equator – and beaming power to latitudes higher than about 45 becomes inefficient, above 60 prohibitively so.

So SPS energy will not be beamed directly to locations such as Alaska, Sweden, Norway, much of Russia (Moscow is at 55 degrees), etc. Still, collection areas may be placed at lower latitudes and the power carried by land lines much as we do today.

By: Chris Dann

Chris Dann — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 07:54:54 +0000

Poesy

It does seem like the satellites that could beam down the microwave energy will burn off some of atmosphere. This is not true, though, as ordinary satellites beam down microwaves and they have no effect on the atmosphere.

There are a few disadvantages to microwave radiation though. Microwaves are used in a microwave to cook food and heat up your coffee so I wouldn’t want to be near it when it hits the earth. Lasers have been suggested but are just in the talking stage.

If you are in the mood for conspiracy theories or being totally paranoid then try this article-

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/weathermod/