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- From: andrew@mks.com (Andrew Hamilton-Wright)
- Subject: Re: Lunar "colony" reality check
- Message-ID: <1992Nov13.164226.28644@mks.com>
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- References: <1dnbiqINNdjq@gap.caltech.edu <1992Nov11.002919.1688@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1992Nov12.045803.1096@ke4zv.uucp>
- Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1992 16:42:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov12.045803.1096@ke4zv.uucp> gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman) writes:
- >The inverse square law is a hard master. A microwave array on the Moon
- >
- >Satellite power systems are of dubious economic viability at best. Placing
- >one on such a distant satellite is lunacy. [I kill me. :-)]
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- One of the important benifits of a lunar ground based (and therefore
- more easily maintained, IF there is some kind of permenant base on
- the moon) power, is the possibility of powering obital or other craft
- with power requirements exceeding feasible solar cell array production.
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- An excess(!) of power could even be used to supply power to incoming
- craft landing on the moon - thereby reducing total craft weight by
- reducing fuel carried.
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- -andrew
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