STILL OFF TOPIC: Re: America needs therapy

[Steve Schear]

At 01:14 PM 10/2/2001 +0200, Eugene Leitl wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Steve Schear wrote:
>
> > At 01:25 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote:
> > >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