Land area required for SPS Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Land area required for SPS
# 12248 bywlm_efn@... on Feb. 6, 2012, 5:14 p.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
Correction again: the dimensions of the rectenna array installations
are 12 x 15.8 km, not 10 x 13. (An exclusion area outside the arrays
themselves.)
rectenna installation area = 158.3 km2.
total area needed = 742 * 158.3 = 117393 km2.
lower-48 area = 7882911 km2
percentage = 100 * (117e3 / 7882911) = 1.489 percent.
Or, about the same land area as the state of Virginia.
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