It Came from Outer Space

What happens when it rains?

Is this what Tesla had in mind?

Would hate to be on e of the people in the soon to me micrwave oven formerly known as Fresno county. It seemed to be more than hot enough there in the summer before, hate to imagine how it will feel now.

I hope they will be careful with the aiming of that beam.

Imagine a telephone call from a sheep farm in SA or OZ.

"Sir can you send that microwave beam again my sheep is only half cooked and I cannot do any thing with then."

"NO NO NO not there, that was my homestead."

What else are they supposed to do in Mendota, without any water to grow melons?

I think maybe. But that would have been a conceptional idea. We are not ready yet for the technology.

You don't suppose this sort of public policy has anything to do with the fact that California is bankrupt, do you?

Public policy as determined by ballot proposition

the lawmakers are so impotent they have abdicated their responsibilities to the minority that is the electorate.

I think this alleged technology is nothing more than bogus and where CA is getting scammed.

PG&E only contracted to by any power that is produced

the investors in the scheme are the one's being scammed

Hi,

there is a comparable japanese project, so USA will compete.

Cost is near 100x conventional.

What about beaming to the ocean? Or desert?

Better certainly not to convert to microvawes but mirror down to big boiler.

RHABE

I think our governor got here in somewhat the same fashion.......

beware the misplaced decimal point.......

Like I said before, "You're gonna cook some ducks".

AND The objects in orbit are orbiting the Earth as a whole gravitational sink, not it's magnetic poles or anything like that. SO when the Earth does a precession, nutation, spin speed change, or anything like that, the stupid satellite will be off target. You can use reaction wheels to correct aim, I guess, that's what the Hubble Telescope uses. BUT guess what, they wear out. NOW WHAT are you going to do. Geosynchronous orbit is way too far out for the Shuttle to go out for a repair call.

Hey, folks, concentrate on things that you can use right here. Get the nuclear waste depository open, and lets get independent.

Wouldn't this accentuate "Global Warming"?

This idea has been around for many years now.

It has been batted around on this forum as well.

When the concept and ideas first came to my attention many years ago, I remember there was a reported downside, as there was supposedly the danger of ionization where the microwave beam came through the atmosphere likely to cause a hole in the ozone layer.

Is this, or is it not, a real danger?

Hi,

ionisation will need an energy of above 10eV per ion and this is unlikely.

Much earlier there will be severe excitation and re-radiation in any direction, and also heating (acceleration) of charged particles in the radiation belts that will act as a more or less good absorber.

Still earlier will be local breakdown (arcing) by too high field strengths.

This together with the problems of ultrahigh-power microwave amplifiers will soon cancel this approach.

But I suppose that the other possibility with steerable mirrors focused onto an ocean based evaporator will come to reality as an experimental unit and then be recognised as much too expensive.

RHABE

Thank you RHABE!

Appears that you are in queue with what I was getting at. Until we maybe get to such microwave technology where 90+++ efficiency can be achieved, then this subject is only moot, at best. BS in lay terms. Meanwhile, perhaps we should just concentrate on improving earthbound solar energy capture.

Too, I agree with your other opinions, in that I have no forte at all with atmospheric degradation or other ramifications. I do like that you seem to be looking ahead!

If true, that CA is to invest in this: it only suggests to me that the government of CA has taken to dumping $$ that which they don't have toward that precedence now demonstrated by the US Administration (dump money to make money?). Likely, Arnold will NOT "be back" as he is famous for as an actor.

We as a state aren't investing in this scheme

Solaren hasn't actually commited to even launching satellites until successful ground based testing of the technology.

Getting contracts would just be a requirement to moving forward with the research & what ever funding they are trying to line up.

Sounds like another green "stimulus" boondoggle and an accident looking for a place to happen!