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This sounds like something Elon Musk would want to go along with his internet satellite network. He could even store the energy in his Tesla battery farms, I'm sure Australia would be interested.
More space distractions like buying OneWeb. Having been on the receiving end of waiting for a test result for my son recently I wouldn't trust UK gov to organise anything. Let alone something this complex.
Whoever not? Large scale government projects have such a good reputation. Look at the centralisation of NHS records. And of coming in on-time, on-budget. Like HS2. And ....Originally Posted by cheesemp
Oh, wait ....
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
Unfortunately when the solar beam misses the target several blocks around London get fried.
Surely everyone going green is what they wanted all along, though?
Go Green - Glow Green!!
Wind turbines look quite pretty, I think, especially when you have a hillside full of them in nice straight lines, all turning in unison.
The problem is the noise they make - We stayed somewhere hilly in Cornwall, where you were actually kept awake by the whooff-whooff-whooff noise... from the turbines several miles away!
We have just the one locally and when it's working it powers a whole office/industrial estate. Don't always see it turning, though.
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Sure that wasn't dogs?
I quite like the look of them, too. They're .... somehow sorta serene. But for me, they're definitely a NIMBY thing.
A lesson learned from PeterB about dignity in adversity, so Peter, In Memorium, "Onwards and Upwards".
Can't wait to see these mini nukes installed all over London.
What to do you mean they're too dangerous?....
That's weird. I live less than a kilometer from one - and can't hear a thing
I think it depends on the particulars of the design and interaction with the surrounding area.
I've heard relatively loud ones and some you can't hear at all.
All you hear is the screams of the flocks of birds getting shredded.
But it's okay, you just pop a ready oiled baking tray underneath and wait for dinner to drop.
The UK government is the last organisation on the planet I'd trust not to rubbishrubbishrubbishrubbish this sort of thing up.
I doubt it. The impulse created from the photons of light hitting an orbital satellite wouldn't be significant enough to move a relatively massive satellite out of orbit. Otherwise all the GPS satellites and the space station etc wouldn't be able to maintain a geosynchronous orbit.
I think I've used the correct terms, but there again it has been 25 years since I graduated with my engineering degree where I specialized in orbital mechanics - and I've never looked at it since
What amount of solar panels would it take for this to become energy efficient? It takes A LOT of energy to push stuff out of Earth's gravity.
As Phil said, it depends on the design.
The big one we have here is silent, even when it's actually turning. The ones in Cornwall were like someone slowly swinging a grappling hook.
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Shouldn't the project budget for that long discussed space elevator too, to get all the gear up into space?
Of course they'd need to build more than one, as the first would be jam packed with space tourists. :-)
...Not that I'd want to live anywhere near the anchor point!
Failing to read the article makes u look a jackass; "Interestingly the official government press release admits the idea behind the SBSP system comes from science-fiction writer Isaac Asimov, who wrote about this concept back in 1941". Arthur C Clarke is a few years to young, Asimov got there 1st.One of the classic SciFi writers has it in a book, might be Arthur C Clarke. In one book they use high power microwaves to get the power back to earth, the system gets taken over and used as a weapon. Option 2 was a lower power diffuse receiver station, but that needed lots of room.
First means nothing, his point is still perfectly valid.
In actual fact, Clarke first delivered two real-world engineering proposals for solar-powered geostationary comms satelites, which were later realised in the form of the the Telstar I comsat.
Getting abusive over it just confirms you are a jackass. I'm guessing PeterB's gentle caution did nothing for you?
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