In reply to OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson's message of Thu, 3 Mar 2011 07:28:51 -0600: Hi, [snip] >Any reasonable guesstamate as to how much energy, theoretically speaking >here, could be tapped into?
A rough calculation of the power delivered by the average Solar wind based on an Earth radius of 1.1 times the planet radius yields a value of 111 GW. Of course that doesn't mean we could actually retrieve all of it. If the average car travels 15000 km / yr @ 60 km/hr, and uses say 20 hp to do it, then 111 GW would be enough to power about 260 million cars. >My initial impression is that it would not be >all that much, especially if you start setting up lots of devices in close >proximity to each other. I was wondering if the closer each device is placed >next to a similar device they might start competing against each other for >the same resonate "waves" Yes, I expect they would. [snip] Regards, Robin van Spaandonk http://rvanspaa.freehostia.com/Project.html
