[ExI] Fwd: Help Us Reimagine Energy for the DoD!

[Keith Henson]

Adrian Tymes <atymes at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keith: might you be interested in writing up your understanding of how to
do solar power satellites for these guys?  The US Department of Defense
drops billions on projects like nobody else.

Unfortunately, I don't have a solution.  For microwave optice reasons,
the size of a power satellite optimizes around 5 GW.  The demand of a
big forward base is around 5 MW, so we are talking about a scale
mismatch of around 1000 to one.

Perhaps one approach would be to install a full scale power satellite
and rectenna and sell any power the forward base could not use to the
locals.  Make a profit center out of a forward base.

Keith