This sets a new low in editorial standards for Slashdot.
It was bad enough when RobLimo blatantly sucked up to Microsoft, turning a blind eye to obvious bullshit, as noted here: Re:"Not weasely?" posted on Thursday April 05, @10:14AM (Score:1)
attached to Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds.
Now, Hemos is spreading lies and FUD that bring Slashdot down to the level of tabloid non-editors. Please go out of business soon, or be sell out to Microsoft soon and in the open, so that your damage to the industry will be limited.
Most proposals have been to have a maser beam disperse over several kilometers of land onto a sunlight friendly wire mesh array antenna covering grazing land.
This avoids the weapon issue and the frying issue, since the energy concentration per square foot is low enough to be *mostly harmless*.
Conversion by antenna should be much more efficient than solar panel.
Follow up on non-net research mentioned at cited links for more details. A lot of people have been studying this idea for a long time, but of course the oil companies control all.
It's my understaning that converting maser transmissions to electricity via antenna should be much more efficient than solar panels. Anyone have more up to date info on the research?
(1)By the time it's "mostly harmless," won't it be sufficiently low-energy to be completely useless?
The atomspheric energy absorption is not high enough to make this inefficient and does not really contribute to making this *mostly harmless*. The reason it becomes *mostly harmless* is due to dispersion of the beam over a large area. So, a larger antenna is used to pick it up.
People need to check out the solar power satellites link cited in the post. The safety details have been addressed long ago.
Masers have been proposed to focus a beam of microwaves and avoid interference. They would not be suitable for offensive use, because the beam diffuses out over several square kilometers by the time it hits the ground. Of course, to sell Bush on the idea, you would have to have a refocusable beam that could become small enough to do a simcity style kill.
Actually, the reason why such a large antenna array is needed on the ground is due to the diffusion of the beam. By the time it gets to the surface, it is *mostly harmless* or so it has been said over the years by its proponents. O'Neill and others proposed the construction of a large mesh array antenna that would pass sunlight and could be situated over cattle grazing land. Feasibility studies have been done in the past, and the only real problem was the construction cost in space.
"He said "sure" without even a second's hesitation, let alone checking with PR people. His answers to the 10 selected questions we sent him are 100% straight-up."
Perhaps this is because all MS execs *are* PR people. Straight up?!? These responses are *pure spin* and avoid answering the question in the spirit posed -- typical PR fluff -- they ALWAYS result in a plug for windows, do not address the core of the question, usually contradict the questioner, and DEFINITELY contradict the overwhelming view of/.ers, and the run-of-the-day editorial stance by the newer members of the/. editorial team.
STRAIGHT UP?!? Is RobLimo on DRUGS!?! This is the most blatant cozying up to MS by/. elders yet. Does anyone else see a trend here? Talk about Illuminati in Action...
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This sets a new low in editorial standards for Slashdot. It was bad enough when RobLimo blatantly sucked up to Microsoft, turning a blind eye to obvious bullshit, as noted here: Re:"Not weasely?" posted on Thursday April 05, @10:14AM (Score:1) attached to Windows Exec Doug Miller Responds. Now, Hemos is spreading lies and FUD that bring Slashdot down to the level of tabloid non-editors. Please go out of business soon, or be sell out to Microsoft soon and in the open, so that your damage to the industry will be limited.
Most proposals have been to have a maser beam disperse over several kilometers of land onto a sunlight friendly wire mesh array antenna covering grazing land.
This avoids the weapon issue and the frying issue, since the energy concentration per square foot is low enough to be *mostly harmless*.
Conversion by antenna should be much more efficient than solar panel.
Follow up on non-net research mentioned at cited links for more details. A lot of people have been studying this idea for a long time, but of course the oil companies control all.
It's my understaning that converting maser transmissions to electricity via antenna should be much more efficient than solar panels. Anyone have more up to date info on the research?
The atomspheric energy absorption is not high enough to make this inefficient and does not really contribute to making this *mostly harmless*. The reason it becomes *mostly harmless* is due to dispersion of the beam over a large area. So, a larger antenna is used to pick it up.
People need to check out the solar power satellites link cited in the post. The safety details have been addressed long ago.
Masers have been proposed to focus a beam of microwaves and avoid interference. They would not be suitable for offensive use, because the beam diffuses out over several square kilometers by the time it hits the ground. Of course, to sell Bush on the idea, you would have to have a refocusable beam that could become small enough to do a simcity style kill.
Actually, the reason why such a large antenna array is needed on the ground is due to the diffusion of the beam. By the time it gets to the surface, it is *mostly harmless* or so it has been said over the years by its proponents. O'Neill and others proposed the construction of a large mesh array antenna that would pass sunlight and could be situated over cattle grazing land. Feasibility studies have been done in the past, and the only real problem was the construction cost in space.
STRAIGHT UP?!? Is RobLimo on DRUGS!?! This is the most blatant cozying up to MS by /. elders yet. Does anyone else see a trend here? Talk about Illuminati in Action...