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- From: ralph.buttigieg@f635.n713.z3.fido.zeta.org.au (Ralph Buttigieg)
- Newsgroups: sci.space
- Subject: Re: SPS and light pollution
- Message-ID: <a89dff95@Kralizec.fido.zeta.org.au>
- Date: 11 Aug 92 17:10:16 GMT
- Organization: Fidonet. Gate admin is fido@socs.uts.edu.au
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- Original to: Wreck@Fmsrl7.Srl.Ford.Com
- to wreck@fmsrl7.srl.ford.com (R. Cage), via *IXgate 3:713/602
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- w> Ground-based solar is available only during daylight, and has
- w> seriously reduced availability in the winter months at higher
- w> latitudes. This requires long-distance transport or long-term
- w> energy storage, which would be real nice to have anyway; we
- w> don't. SPS is there almost all the time, and its out-periods
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- We don't have long-distance transport the same way we don't have
- a SPS system- no one has built one yet. There is a very serious scheme
- to build a world wide power grid. Its proponents belive all
- the technology is already available. Superconductors would be nice, but
- not required.
- My sugestion is that the Space power people should look at this first.
- Microwave mirrors in Space could play a very important role in
- transcontinental electicity transmission.
-
- ta
- Ralph
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