Solar-pumped laser power transmission, a way to dramatically decrease launch costs?
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From: William Mook on 21 Feb 2010 13:17 On Feb 20, 6:04 pm, "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > Alternatively, larger diameter emitters may be built - and higher > > > > > > energy levels - which mean larger thrusts. > > > > > > How much faster would those be if they used a superlaser? > > > > > What is a superlaser? > > > >http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Superlaser > > > So, a superlaser is a fictional device. I see. > > As are Mr. Mook's proposals. My proposals are not fictional. There are not patents, engineering drawings, business plans or factory designs for superlasers. There are all these for my stuff. http://www.scribd.com/doc/26890687/CH2MHill-Study http://www.scribd.com/doc/26855139/1000-Solar-Way-Purchase-Signed http://www.scribd.com/doc/25174645/Mokenergy-Brochure-2 http://www.scribd.com/doc/21832226/Mook-Patent-Solar-Energy-Spectral-Cooling
From: William Mook on 21 Feb 2010 14:18 Well, if we're going to talk about things that cannot be built but are widely known through fiction, lets talk also about things that might be built, but aren't as fully worked out as some of my other proposals. Looking at one of my more speculative propopsals, we can do way better than collecting energy at 2 million km from the Sun. At 2 million km an 8.8 ton satellite only 500 feet across beams more energy to Earth (or anywhere in the inner solar system) than is produced by 100 nuclear power plants at a cost of one or two nuclear power plants. Which is pretty impressive. Going INSIDE the Sun is possible, and gives us far more capabilities. The same navigation that drops a satellite to within 2 million km of the Sun also is capable of dropping an object INTO the Sun. Drop a shielded solar pumped laser into the sun, that once there flashes a UV laser source before disintegrating through a UV hologram. The UV hologram projects a 3D pattern into the Solar Plasma in such a way as to create a self-replicating plasma structure that carries out logical and memory operations. http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Artificial_Life/ This is possible because (1) The sun creates energy by fusion processes that go on deep inside the sun. The plasma of which the sun is composed is NEAR fusion conditions, and the addition of UV light creates conditions that produce a flash of UV light when focused. Thus, a process can be imagined that is self-powered. (2) The sun's plasma is a nonlinear optical medium - that changes its refractive index in response to light intensity. So, optical computing processes may be implemented using this medium. So, we drop a UV flash bulb that projects through a UV hologram to produce a UV producing self replicating plasma structure in the sun. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonic_computing http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/hologram-16.gif So, we can create a programmed artificial life within the plasma of the sun. We can also communicate with it via radio waves or light waves. So, we could turn the sun into a super massive self-powered supercomputing platform. Which is useful. What else? Well, light can be used to manipulate atoms - and even refrigerate them http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/bec/lascool4.html So, the self-replicating plasma structures could send beams of light through regions of the sun to cool and trap atoms of a specific type that occur within the plasma, and react them to form specific structures which are then further processed into all manner of things. Just as we can cool and use cryogenic liquids and solids and store them and use them, so too can these plasma processes select and cool materials within the sun. It can also eject this material out of the sun in steady streams that are then further processed in space. This can be used to create controlled jets from the sun. Since the sun has the bulk of the material in the solar system - there are plenty of things there. For example, if 1% of all the gold in the sun were isolated and sent in a cool jet to the Earth the Earth's surface would be covered with gold to a depth of 100 meters. Self replicating systems are capable of exponential growth, and with intense energy available in the sun, reproduction times are short - on the order of milliseconds. So, the entire solar plasma could have optical plasmas coursing through it in a matter of hours. A few hours after that, radical changes could take place in the sun. Including; (1) producing propulsive jets (a) move the sun (b) break the sun into smaller units (i) reduce the output for long term conservation (2) producing material jets (3) producing structured jets (objects) Removing all the heavy materials in the sun would form a shell at 3.5 million km that is a thousand km thick made of the same things as Earth, supported by an iron shell. The sun inside would be broken into a dozen droplets each to drop solar output to a small fraction of what it is today, but bright enough to illuminate the shell that is 1 million times as large as Earth itself - but will last for 10 trillion years. Also, made by AI and AL - the system would have patterned throughout elements that would respond to human desire and will - so wealth would be nearly unlimited in any terms - time attention thought energy materials - you would care to measure.
From: Scott M. Kozel on 21 Feb 2010 17:23 William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Alternatively, larger diameter emitters may be built - and higher > > > > > > > energy levels - which mean larger thrusts. > > > > > > > How much faster would those be if they used a superlaser? > > > > > > What is a superlaser? > > > > >http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Superlaser > > > > So, a superlaser is a fictional device. I see. > > > As are Mr. Mook's proposals. > > My proposals are not fictional. There are not patents, engineering > drawings, business plans or factory designs for superlasers. There > are all these for my stuff. They are orders of magnitude more advanced that anything implemented in current technlogy. With all due respect, that makes them "fictional".
From: William Mook on 22 Feb 2010 16:57 On Feb 21, 5:23 pm, "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > > > > > > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Alternatively, larger diameter emitters may be built - and higher > > > > > > > > energy levels - which mean larger thrusts. > > > > > > > > How much faster would those be if they used a superlaser? > > > > > > > What is a superlaser? > > > > > >http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Superlaser > > > > > So, a superlaser is a fictional device. I see. > > > > As are Mr. Mook's proposals. > > > My proposals are not fictional. There are not patents, engineering > > drawings, business plans or factory designs for superlasers. There > > are all these for my stuff. > > They are orders of magnitude more advanced that anything implemented > in current technlogy. So? > With all due respect, that makes them "fictional". Not at all. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6TJM-4SGD4M3-N&_user=10&_coverDate=08%2F01%2F2008&_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_searchStrId=1217603514&_rerunOrigin=google&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=cfb46d797f45c8a9e04162a12623abeb
From: William Mook on 23 Feb 2010 10:16
On Feb 23, 1:18 am, Fred J. McCall <fjmcc...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > :On Feb 20, 2:28 pm, "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > :> William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > :> > "Scott M. Kozel" <koze...(a)comcast.net> wrote: > :> > > William Mook <mokmedi...(a)gmail.com> wrote: > :> > :> > > > Alternatively, larger diameter emitters may be built - and higher > :> > > > energy levels - which mean larger thrusts. > :> > :> > > How much faster would those be if they used a superlaser? > :> > :> > What is a superlaser? > :> > :>http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Superlaser > : > :So, a superlaser is a fictional device. I see. > : > > As such, it ought to fit in well with many of your 'engineering' > solutions as presented here. > > -- > "Ordinarily he is insane. But he has lucid moments when he is > only stupid." > -- Heinrich Heine Not really, since none of my stuff is fictional. |