>Satellite solar power should have no effect on planetary kinematics. It should also, >properly implemented, not change the earth's heat budget. Yes, like all energy usage, it >will add heat to the environment, but it is not this heat which is really the problem >today, and that contribution could be balanced rather easily. The serious problem is the >change in the atmosphere from fossil fuel burning, which then causes changes in heat >retention by the earth, thus leading quite likely to global change. Satellite solar >power could contribute, in the construction phase, to atmospheric change, from massive >booster exhaust gases; however, the bulk of the construction in the L-5 conception was >to take place from lunar materials. The engineering was worked out over twenty years >ago; the obstacle was not practical, nor was it economics, really, but politics.
Ahh, but there's a problem... For energy is equivalent to mass, e=mc^2. And hence if you're injecting energy from a satellite onto the earth surface via electron movement or any other such method, then you will change the kinematics of the system. Perhaps we should just invent a method whereby we don't use any energy at all, like a super efficient light bulb... I mean hey you can get plans off the internet for perpetual motion, and machines that somehow generate energy from splitting and recombining water, surely with enough looking we'd find something for extreme energy efficiency. Or we could stop wondering so much about what kind of absurd affect our current energy usage will have on the earth and just work more on reducing the short term negatives, such as oil and coal burners, and removing that incredibly negative perspective on nuclear power generation. Bevan ____________________________________________________________ You are subscribed to the OT discussion forum To Post messages: mailto:[email protected] Unsubscribe and Other Options: http://techservinc.com/mailman/listinfo/ot_techservinc.com Browse or Search Old Archives (2001-2004): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] Browse or Search Current Archives (2004-Current): http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]
