[ExI] StratoSolar

[Keith Henson]

I worked (unpaid) for Ed Kelly for over a year on the first (thermal)
version of StratoSolar.

http://theoildrum.com/node/8323

Storage was thermal, 35,000 cubic meters of firebrick.

The second version was PV at 12 miles up.  Storage was weights lifted
as much as 12 miles.

Keith

On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 2:26 PM BillK via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 20:23, Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > StratoSolar (Stratospheric (20km) tethered photovoltaic aerostats with built-in kinetic energy storage)
> >
> > http://www.stratosolar.com/
> >
> > This is something that I would have expected some people on this list to know about, and have an opinion on, but I don't see any posts about it for at least the last three years.
> >
> <snip>
> > --
> > Ben
> > _______________________________________________
>
>
> Gemini AI thinks StratoSolar is not practicable at present.
> The project costs, technical problems and legal problems, etc. are too big.
> While ground-based solar and wind tech improves every year.
>
> BillK
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