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Tuesday, December 15th, 2009Don’t be one.
Archive for December, 2009
Island of Misfit Toys
Tuesday, December 15th, 2009I saw this on TV the other night, ROFL. Poor AT&T, getting the crap kicked out of them left and right. Genius advert by Verizon, for this problem and particular time of year.
We’ve got that B Roll!
Monday, December 14th, 2009*snort*
Spindizzy?
Saturday, December 12th, 2009Quantum Vacuum Effect could be used for propulsion. A comment on that article mentions the ‘spindizzy‘.
Alright! A Cities in Flight reference. I haven’t read that one in …. 20 years?
Space based power pilot to provide energy to California by 2016
Friday, December 11th, 2009Holy Cow.. We might just make it off of this fragile eggs-in-one-basket planet after all. Cheap power from space is but the first step towards harnessing the resources of the planetary system beyond earth.
Jerry Pournelle proposed space based power systems beaming solar derived energy as microwaves to ground receivers back in the 70s. I first read about those ideas in his “A Step Farther Out“, first published in 1979. I think my copy is from 1984.
A pilot project for a 200 megawatt system using a 1 Kilometre wide mylar concentrator mirror has recently been approved by the California Public Utilities Commission. By that proposal, power is supposed to be flowing by 2016.
Can’t wait to hear what Jerry Pournelle may have to say about this.