# 10127 byjagmeet1993@... on June 29, 2007, noon
Member since 2021-10-03
how to use solar energy in space efficiently?
# 10128 bymikecombs@... on June 29, 2007, 1:11 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
From: Jagmeet Kumar
Read Gerard O'Neil's "The High Frontier". In addition to SPS, O'Neill
discusses space-based solar concentrating mirrors which might have the
square area of a football field while still massing less than a car.
Such a mirror, operating over the course of 30 years, could provide
process heat equivalent to the burning of 1 million barrels of oil.
The High Frontier by
Gerard K. O'Neill, 1976, Bantam Books/SSI Press, ISBN: 0-688-03133-1,
0-9622379-0-6 & 1-896522-67-X
Regards,
Mike Combs
# 10129 byian.woollard@... on July 29, 2007, 5:35 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
On 29/06/07, Jagmeet Kumar wrote:
> how to use solar energy in space efficiently?
space *inexpensively*, and I'm quite prepared to waste a *lot* of
sunlight to do it ;-)
--
-Ian Woollard
"I think we all would have been a lot happier if they hadn't landed a
man on the moon. Then we'd go: 'They can't make a prescription bottle
top that's easy to open? I'm not surprised they couldn't land a man on
the moon. Things make perfect sense to me now.' "