From: Amara Graps (amara@amara.com)
Date: Mon Feb 19 2001 - 18:43:12 MST
From: "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com>
>Well, if we assume that we dedicate all of the aluminium in
>the solar system (~6.6x10^23 kg) to reflective collecting
>area 600 nm thick [...]
> that gives you 4.1x10^26 m^2
>of collecting area. That equates to a disc with a diameter
>of ~150 AU (*way* outside Pluto's orbit)
Honestly, Robert !!
We leave you ALONE for _just a little while_, and you've
gone and DISMANTLED parts of our Solar System AGAIN.
WHEN will you learn to leave *us* something to play with?
Hmmm ??
--- BTW. Don't you think that you would need some sort of adaptive optics to stabilize that mirror? ---- BTW^2. I've figured out what Spike needs to do to use CMEs to supply power to California. He needs to send a power line into the "ring current" portion of the Earth's magnetosphere. _That's_ the place in our magnetosphere where the power from the CMEs, that hit the Earth, is stored (but only for a short while). I'll write about that when I can do so, in more detail. Amara ******************************************************************** Amara Graps email: amara@amara.com Computational Physics vita: finger agraps@shell5.ba.best.com Multiplex Answers URL: http://www.amara.com/ ******************************************************************** "Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness." --Ashleigh Brilliant
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