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Solar power
Troutsqueezer:
I trust, Sir, that you will do better than "create scrap, one part at a time". :poke:
AdeV:
--- Quote ---I have been working (from time-to-time) with solar (and other alternative) energy systems since the early-1970's. There were programs on using particle beams to transmit energy (Chair Heritage, GRASER, and, later, SDI) that were demonstrated as part of SkyLab that everybody has forgotten about. We actually (1976) achieved 5 MW of transmission in a ø6 inch (ø100 mm) beam that was publicly acknowledged (in Popular Science). I have heard (but have no documentation for) claims made of reaching close to 12 MW in a ø6 inch beam from the late-1980's.
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One of my favourite things in SimCity 2000 was the particle-beam power plant. Its disaster mode was the beam went off-station and started microwaving the town - great fun :lol:
DavidA:
The beamed energy had a much more sinister side effect. Heating the atmosphere as the microwaves passed through it. There was much discussion of the changes to weather conditions that would result from this.
Things got, if you'll excuse the pun, quite heated.
Maybe the Spanish 'Power Tower' is the way to go for solar thermal.
Dave.
Noitoen:
--- Quote from: DavidA on December 21, 2012, 02:25:55 PM ---Maybe the Spanish 'Power Tower' is the way to go for solar thermal.
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The big problem is keeping the mirrors clean and efficient :scratch:
DavidA:
I believe there is a robot vehicle that does this.
But maybe one of these coatings that repel dust will do it.
Dave.
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