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To: Sender

The conversion efficiency would probably only be about 25% efficient end to end. The solar flux at the earths orbit is approximately 1600 Watts/meter-squared. You’d need about one square mile of orbiting collectors per gigawatt delivered power. The power could safely be focused on area the size of a football field, the collecting antenna. Spreading the receiving antennas would be unnecessary and probably unwise. You need to spread the transmitters to effect a small ground spot and to keep them “decorrelated” in the event of the failure of any one satellite.

I just used New England as the foot print size of any one transmitter as an example.

I’m not at all convinced it would be economically feasible.


60 posted on 07/25/2008 8:22:38 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (His Negritude has made his negritude the central theme of this campaign)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

You obviously know what you are talking about


61 posted on 07/26/2008 2:16:23 PM PDT by dennisw (That Muhammad was a charlatan. Islam is a hoax, an imperialistic ideology, disguised as religion.)
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