America needs therapy

[Steve Schear]

At 04:30 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
>mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:
>
>>>"James B. DiGriz" <jbdigriz at 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