Living in SCi-Fi movies is living in a Fantasy
Birds will explode in just a second.......................
4,000 arrays of panels measuring 10 x 270 meters is pretty big. It is gonna take a lot of carnival balloons to float it all up there.
That is so gay.
>> It is not derived from rigorous analyses but rather serves as system requirements for commercial viability.
...wait, what ???!?
>> On the ground, the researchers propose to place 60 rectennas with a diameter of 4 km along the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).
Oh. It’s in Korea. What could go wrong? Go for it! I ain’t gonna pay for it though.
Don’t microwaves cook things with water in them, like people. What if someone were to hack the system and point it at Seoul?
I believe a space project could produce the electricity. Big whoop. Demonstrate how the power gets to the ground. I’ll wait, but I won’t hold my breath.
Isaac Asimov wrote about this. I’m sure he didn’t invent the concept.
And if one of those transmitting satellites’ beams drifts a few thousandths of a degree, they will set a Nork guard post on fire.
Talk about dual use!
Don't hold your breath.....
Where will the shadows be casted?
10,800sq meters of diminished solar energy reaching the Earth, casting a shadow of xx to the 10th sq kilometers.
Gee: Where’s the paper on the effects thereof?
Will the country(ies) affected have a say in this project???
Better (or worse): Is this how they plan on ‘selling’ the ‘solar shield’ concept to the public? Deception?
/s
That’s gonna take a very long extension cord.
Will kill millions on millions of birds, bats, and beneficial insects. Any misalignment caused for any reason will destroy who knows how many miles of the country and fry its citizens.
Another science fantasy that will never happen.
1. “Research “green scam”
2. “Taxpayer money required”
3. ?
4. Profit.
And when your toaster is plugged into the array, you’ll hear this:
Good, good, good, good vibrations (oom bop bop)
She’s giving me the excitations (excitations, oom bop bop)
I’m pickin’ up good vibrations
These days must be at geosynchronous orbit at ten thousand tonnes each...the largest rocket on earth is Starship by SpaceX it is twice the size of the Saturn V in takeoff thrust and LEO payload with a raptor based kick stage it could put 42 tonnes into GEO and bring back the OTV to LEO for starship to recover it the whole system is then reusable. So how many Starship launches to build a single 2 gigawatt station? 238 for 10,000 tonnes having 8 starships and launching one a day land recovery refurbish in 6 days between each launch would be 365 launches per year with a fleet of 8 leaving one on orbit at a time the others are in referb. Elon plans for Starship to be like an airplane land and ready to launch again in hours not days but a 6 day period seems less ambitious.
For those who are SpaceX fans this person did the mass balance for a hypothetical Raptor based OTV the numbers are impressive once you can throw 150 tonnes into LEO you can build massive things in space this is what Starship is all about and it will be fully reusable. Liquid methane is cheap and so is LOX starship needs a few million in each to fly.
https://www.reddit.com/r/space2030/comments/19038iz/thoughts_on_a_reusable_otv_for_starship/
10,000 tons boosted into stationary 22,000 mile orbit, then constructed out there...somehow. Yeah, no problem.