[QUOTE=Yahnich;25338707]You know this sounds oddly familiar to this one dream I had where mankind built a huge magnifying glass in space as a weapon of mass destruction.[/QUOTE]
That wasn't a dream :ssh:
[QUOTE=petieng;25350490]1 billion billion gigawatts can't be right. That's over twice the energy output of the sun.[/QUOTE]
You just took that number out of your ass, didn't you
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;25358349]You just took that number out of your ass, didn't you[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Helix Alioth;25335805]
A satellite with a 1,000-meter (3,280-foot) cable and a sail 8,400 kilometers (5,220 miles) across, placed at roughly the same orbit, would generate [b]one billion billion gigawatts[/b] of power.[/i]
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The output power of the sun is:
3.83×10^26 Watts (383 yottawatts) or 9.15 × 10^10 megatons of TNT per second.
[QUOTE=GunFox;25342933]Congrats science, you have figured out that you can generate power by strapping a MASSIVE WINDMILL TO THE PLANET. [/QUOTE]
It's nothing like a windmill. The article says [B]specifically[/B] it is not like a windmill.
[QUOTE=BaconDioxide;25359903]It's nothing like a windmill. The article says [B]specifically[/B] it is not like a windmill.[/QUOTE]
Okay it's a bunch of charged copper wiring which magically absorbs electrons. Cry about it.
Obviously if it was actually like a windmill then it wouldn't need to be in space.
[QUOTE=GunFox;25365845]Okay it's a bunch of charged copper wiring which magically absorbs electrons. Cry about it.
Obviously if it was actually like a windmill then it wouldn't need to be in space.[/QUOTE]
If you connect the copper wiring to him he might cry about it.
[QUOTE=GunFox;25365845]Okay it's a bunch of charged copper wiring which magically absorbs electrons. Cry about it.
Obviously if it was actually like a windmill then it wouldn't need to be in space.[/QUOTE]
"Magically absorbs electrons"? fuckin' miracles everywhere in this bitch
Also, we're working on that god damn space elevator. You'll see. :arghfist::science:
It wouldn't really be a sail, but a magnetic sail.
Solar sail = Light.
Magnetic sail = Solar wind.
Everyone construct your own satellite sail out of homemade materials.
No more electric bill.
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