[ExI] More ranting on power sats

[spike]

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[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of John Clark



>.solar power satellites.wouldn't work for up to 72 minutes a day when the
earth eclipses anything in geosynchronous orbit.   John K Clark 

 

Indeed sir?  Did you forget that the plane of the ecliptic is tilted 23
degrees from the orbit plane of the earth's orbit about the sun?  Of course
for a few days in March and a few days in September, your comment is partly
right, if you don't consider the penumbra all the way out there.

 

spike






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