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I was watching a video titled 'Why don’t we cover the desert with solar panels' [1] where they showed a solar power tower as an alternative. This reminded me of a ground-based microwave weapon with an orbital mirror in the furry webcomic SSDD [2] and I combined it with a room-temperature solid-state maser [3] to create the concept in this drawing.
The orbital reflector is a statite [4], a kind a satellite using a solar sail to remain stationary relative to the ground while being lower than geostationary orbit.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcLlpWmEpQ8
[2] http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20060206.html
[3] https://www.sciencealert.com/maser-.....re-solid-state
[4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5183225A/en
The orbital reflector is a statite [4], a kind a satellite using a solar sail to remain stationary relative to the ground while being lower than geostationary orbit.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcLlpWmEpQ8
[2] http://www.poisonedminds.com/d/20060206.html
[3] https://www.sciencealert.com/maser-.....re-solid-state
[4] https://patents.google.com/patent/US5183225A/en
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I have Isaac Arthur's channel in my bookmarks for a while now. I'm sure that he's talked about space-based solar power projects before, most of them employ a microwave beam to transmit energy to the ground.
The main advantage of space-based solar is the almost-continuous insulation in geostationary orbit.
The issue then is that construction costs must be lower than X times that of ground solar, where X is the ratio between the capacity factor in space and on the ground. When such projects were designed in the 1970s and 1980s, the Space Shuttle was supposed to be cheap and have a fast turn-around...
The main advantage of space-based solar is the almost-continuous insulation in geostationary orbit.
The issue then is that construction costs must be lower than X times that of ground solar, where X is the ratio between the capacity factor in space and on the ground. When such projects were designed in the 1970s and 1980s, the Space Shuttle was supposed to be cheap and have a fast turn-around...
I am glad to hear that, I think he did make a video on power satellites. He also talked about the catch 22 of constructing infrastructure in space as you also mentioned. You have to already have infrastructure in space in order to make it cost effective to build infrastructure in space.
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