... operators would be more likely to be customers of such a business; they're the only parties likely to be willing to pay for the cleanup to be done. I...
I recently read (Wired article)that the "winner" of the elevator 2010 contest was an off-the-shelf non-nanotube rope. Were any of the contestants made of...
... The nearest to a winner was commercial spectra (kite flying cord I believe) tied with a fisherman's knot to prevent the cord cutting itself. Byran...
hi got this from http://www.halfbakery.com/ page http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Elevator_20to_20Space/addlink#addlink "Per [MauiChuck]'s earlier question,...
i am in the 'recycling' business and always had a dream about collecting space debris ;-) very interested in the info .. anyone knows ? ..peekay ... From:...
The standard of argument at the half-bakery site is exceptionally low -- about many things, not just the SE. Even slashdot is better. Nevertheless ... Assuming...
"LEO clean-up may not be a "direct" application of the SE, but since the SE is all about cheaper spaceflight, it could lower the cost of entry into the space...
RE: SE used to build a United States Solar Power System (SPS) Array Why not use two SE's to build a Solar Power System (SPS) array in SPACE to supply the U.S....
... http://spacefuture.com/archive/a_fresh_look_at_space_solar_power_new_architectures_concepts_and_technologies.shtml ... According to my reading, about 20%...
... The biggest obstacle to CATS is lack of demand. We've been stuck in a low-volume, high-cost regime for decades because we simply don't put enough mass into...
SPS or CATS would be just the kind of grand engineering project that: 1. Provides a National Vision ( Like the Highway Program of the 50s or Kennedy's Moon...
... Am I hearing SPS justified because it justifies the SE? ... If there are multiple solutions to a problem, pick the most feasible. Nuclear and terrestrial...
Not that far fetched. Especially when you consider work being done now by NAS and NASA. Plus recent technolgical advances by companies like but not limited to...
... Yes -- that's why I wrote "candidly." Affordable access to space is a classic chicken-and-egg or vicious-circle problem: we don't do much of it because...
... I understand your reasoning, but I do not think it is going to make anyone buy into SPS who is not an SE aficionado, or vice versa. That is not a lot of...
... There is one niche that SPS could use to become viable. There is enough energy available on Earth. The problem is distributing it. No affluent person in...
... After reading a lot of papers on SE, and rocketry, they both suffer from the same problem in fact- you need to launch a lot of stuff to bring the costs...
I personally like the idea of mining the Moon for platinum, palladium and gold. But in the near term, I don't see too much other than tourism that will be...
... Geoff Landis had an idea that struck my fancy: put an SPS in orbit around the Sun-Earth L2 point (on the opposite side of the Earth from the Sun). Such a...
I may have been too lose with my words. However, we could start the SPS POC project in a few years with currently available technology. In particular I'm...
... In your maths, you seem to not have accounted for the full costs of space operations. Launch costs are just the beginning. To that needs to be added power...
... I've done the maths on this, and so far as I can tell, no, not really. If launched using rockets, SPS gives an energy payback on the rocket fuel used after...
... I accounted for those. ... I don't agree that any maintenance is required. Do GEOsats require people to go up and fix them? They have solar panels on them,...
... Uhm Andreas? It's not just 'his' math... this case has been very well studied both in the 70s and early 80 but in the last few years and it's QUITE doable...
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Note that building a national SPS will not easy! ( No free lunches, here.) There is STILL a lot of work to be done in the area of efficency of the translation...
I don't know if you guys have seen it or not but there's an interesting item on Space Review about Lunar SPS, suggesting this would even be more economic than...
I'm part of this MIT Enterprise Forum in Cambridge, MA and they have a business "plan" competition coming up, ideas only have to be loosely related to energy....
... So, you know how much it will cost to transmit Gigawatts of power from orbit to Earth? When nothing even remotely like it has ever been done? Please share...
... It might be, I haven't checked the arithmetic. But the startup costs are very high indeed; a significant fraction of a trillion dollars before you deliver...
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