Comments on: Space… the solar power frontier http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/ Trends, happenings and innovations in the clean technology market Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1401 Anonymous Tue, 23 Oct 2007 18:06:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1401 Hehe sorry. I'm just suspicious of the current US administration's designs on space and the words "disruptive game changer on the battlefield" send a shiver down my spine. It'll be an interesting one to watch that's for sure. It's worth checking this Worldchanging article and some of the sites they link through to: http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007460.html Hehe sorry. I’m just suspicious of the current US administration’s designs on space and the words “disruptive game changer on the battlefield” send a shiver down my spine. It’ll be an interesting one to watch that’s for sure.

It’s worth checking this Worldchanging article and some of the sites they link through to:

http://www.worldchanging.com/archives/007460.html

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1400 Anonymous Tue, 23 Oct 2007 03:10:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1400 and here i was getting all excited about finally realizing Steven Wright's dream...the Cordless Extension Cord!! Now you've all got me worried about laser beams and RF cooking me from the inside out! and here i was getting all excited about finally realizing Steven Wright’s dream…the Cordless Extension Cord!!

Now you’ve all got me worried about laser beams and RF cooking me from the inside out!

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1398 Anonymous Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:03:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1398 From the report it seems that some sort of laser is one potential method, but wouldn't gigawatts of RF do a fairly good job at cooking you? If an energy generation technology has a *hint* of weapons potential then I think it should be left well alone. From the report it seems that some sort of laser is one potential method, but wouldn’t gigawatts of RF do a fairly good job at cooking you?

If an energy generation technology has a *hint* of weapons potential then I think it should be left well alone.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1399 Anonymous Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:42:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1399 http://entropyproduction.blogspot.com/2006/07/solar-power-satellite.html Been there, done that, thrown the concept in the blue box. http://entropyproduction.blogspot.com/2006/07/solar-power-satellite.html
Been there, done that, thrown the concept in the blue box.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1397 Anonymous Wed, 17 Oct 2007 17:50:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1397 Not a laser but an RF transmitter. The military applications for a directed energy weapon are not there. Stephen Not a laser but an RF transmitter. The military applications for a directed energy weapon are not there.

Stephen

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1396 Anonymous Wed, 17 Oct 2007 09:43:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1396 Hmmmm it's the military side of things that worries me more than anything. It would effectively be a gigawatt power directed energy weapon. A geosynchronous orbit means that this laser would pass over other countries as America does not lie on the equator and therefore a geostationary orbit is not possible. At the kind of orbital altitudes you're talking about they would have an awful lot of the earth in view. America's clearly stated intentions of dominating space is hugely destabilising (and in clear contravention to the Outer Space Treaty) and with one of these floating above our heads..... Hmmmm it’s the military side of things that worries me more than anything. It would effectively be a gigawatt power directed energy weapon. A geosynchronous orbit means that this laser would pass over other countries as America does not lie on the equator and therefore a geostationary orbit is not possible. At the kind of orbital altitudes you’re talking about they would have an awful lot of the earth in view.

America’s clearly stated intentions of dominating space is hugely destabilising (and in clear contravention to the Outer Space Treaty) and with one of these floating above our heads…..

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1395 Anonymous Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:39:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1395 sorry, link for Khosla is <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2007/20070416_energy/video.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a> sorry, link for Khosla is here

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/comment-page-1/#comment-1394 Anonymous Wed, 17 Oct 2007 05:35:00 +0000 http://www.cleanbreak.ca/2007/10/16/space-the-solar-power-frontier/#comment-1394 What a waste of intellect, good will and funds. Who can explain future generations why we kept on indulging in technological pipe dreams while the solutions were staring us in the face? Look at <a href="rtsp://media4.abc.net.au/4corners/energy/khosla_lo.wmv" rel="nofollow">Khosla</a> and let us get a life. Emil M What a waste of intellect, good will and funds.

Who can explain future generations why we kept on indulging in technological pipe dreams while the solutions were staring us in the face?

Look at Khosla and let us get a life.

Emil M

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