[extropy-chat] Re: MARS: Because it is hard

[Mike Lorrey]

--- Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 01:06:17AM -0400, Chris Phoenix wrote:
> 
> > You would still need energy storage.  Assuming the track injects a 
> 
> Lunar launches are basically all processed material and probes, and
> hence all outgoing. There's no need for energy storage: at 1.4 kW/m^2
> insolation during lunar day energy is abundant.

Yes, but your dealing with a high power system that requires power
storage for coil discharges all along the length of the rail, but the
goal of the discussion is to also use the rail to receive incoming
payloads from Earth.

> 
> >  So you are certainly in the realm of engineering.
> > http://discuss.foresight.org/~josh/tower/tower.html
> 
> Things are easier on Luna. Curvature is higher, though, so longer
> rails will take higher ramps.

No ramp needed. The package will be in a trajectory the whole time it
is going through the track, and so long as there are no mountains in
the way when it exits the rail, does not need to be more than a few
dozen meters above the regolith average elevation.

=====
Mike Lorrey
Chairman, Free Town Land Development
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
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