At 01:14 PM 10/2/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steve Schear wrote:

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At 01:25 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:

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Declan McCullagh wrote: 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,

GEO is lousy: it's too far away,

Apparently the engineers for these project differ with you.

and it's packed already.

GEO is only packed for communications applications. Physically, most of it is very sparsely populated.

Newer concepts assume LEO with active microwave focus tracking of the rectenna ground array with phased array antennas integrated into the solar array. You have to have sufficient amounts of hardware in the sky for continuous line of sight presence.

Active focus and tracking, via a LED, is part of the GEO project as well. steve