At 04:30 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
mmotyka@lsil.com wrote:
"James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz@dragonsweb.org> wrote :
<snip> Declan's note about ADM hogs at the trough with lots of other hogs...
A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that money were spent on engineering research and development of geosynchronous solar power microwave relays, fusion and advanced fission reactors, permanent manned statons on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc. The planet and its politics would likely be a lot cleaner. Just one beneficial side effect.
Just wait until some orbiting uwave controller goes bonserk and boils a slice of America from DC to San Franciso. Oops.
Power density in the proposed systems has been at least nominally low enough you could safely graze cattle in the beam. This ain't a Star Wars death-ray. Not even close.
Beam density of the project I'm aware is estimated as 23mW/cm2 at the center of the rectenna and 1mw/cm2 at the rectenna edge. steve