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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by specfiction[/i] [br]Space based solar power may be the sleeper technology of the twenty-first century. A ring of geosynchronous power satellites would supply electrical transmission via diffuse microwave 24/7. The beams could be made diffuse so that they would not represent a hazard if anything, a plane for example, happened to wander into one. The fact that the transmission was continuous could represent a large amount of cumulative power and a low power density. The frequency of the beam could be tuned so that clouds and bad weather were invisible. Rain or clouds would look transparent to the beams and power would be uninterupted by weather. Also, a ring of of power satellites in 22,000 mile orbits would spur space industry. Here are two stories about Space Based Power: [URL="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technology/space_power_021031.html"]Space-Based Solar Power[/URL] [URL="http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/070411_tech_wed.html"]Pentagon Looking at Space Based Solar Power[/URL] ____________ Specfiction [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.