Depressing thought experiment: How many revolutionary technologies never get developed because the person who thought of it doesn't have the confidence to persue them. I know I have been guilty of it too.
@derp-construction3341 Same. Add that I was (and still am) a petite blonde female. No one would listen anyway. Mine has been around music/vibration/sound/sunlight through ocean capturing and dolphins communications... 🤔 It's not too late, I know... I'm planning on living to 120 plus and I'm only half way there now.
Rather than build giant solar arrays in orbit & beam the power to Earth, this technology could be used to transmit power from an Earth-based array (say in the Sahara Desert) to receivers in populated areas, right?
There was nothing in the article or video about the energy return on energy invested. Is it greater than 1.0, for the entire system, including construction, launch, ground receiver and processing, operations, transmission connection, ...? Otherwise, it's a net energy loss.
I just filmed a documentary at Caltech and JPL interviewing the three lead scientists and all of the grad students regarding this project. The solar panels they created are completely flexible they are 12 inches Square they weigh less than 1 oz and they use the existing SpaceX Rockets to launch them into space, rockets that are already being launched on a daily basis. They are one of the most inexpensive things to send into space because they are so incredibly small and Light they then turn the solar energy 100% of which they absorb into microwave radiation which is transmitted to Earth, anywhere on Earth . They are incredibly efficient
Space-based solar panels can generate 2,000 gigawatts of power constantly. This is 40 times more energy than a solar panel would generate on Earth annually. This is also several folds higher than the efficiency of solar panels today.Mar 13, 2024
is nice....l understand we have to use solar energy.. for make everything work but my question..way we don't have.. different type of energy... not fossil fuel or nuclear the have to be something right 🤔😃
It's not a microwave oven OMG. I literally filmed a documentary about this project with the lead scientists at Caltech and jpl. Trust me they are way smarter than you are
Our beautiful starry nights are going to completely disappear, instead we'll have more power to mine bitcoin and faster instagram in rural India. I can't wait for such a future
Um, you're planning to test wireless power transfer from where to where? From Maple to Maple? What the hell is Maple , what happened to the "tile" that had built in integrated PV and RF? What happened to beaming energy to Earth? Did withdrawal from Afghanistan cut your Northrop Grumman funding?
@@gsmontag Scientists already know what's wrong with it, why they aren't talking about it is beyond me? The problem is cost-to-benefit and LEO satellite congestion. It's as simple as that. They know earth-bound energy production systems will be far more efficient in the future and space-centered energy production is a fools errand. Sounds good, but highly impractical.
@@merlepatterson I agree it is not a near-term solution to energy needs on Earth, it is at best a far future concept for terrestrial applications, or for niche ones only. That said, I believe many concepts involve these devices stationed at geostationary orbit. I do agree, I think, that we should be primarily focused on decarbonizing energy production and the low hanging fruit/cheapest solutions should be implemented first. I just think we should be exploring all the alternatives, and thinking in the long term.
@@merlepatterson What's wrong with the gravitational tractor method of asteroid deflection? Seems like pretty basic physics and engineering to me. Just requires a long lead time on deflection needs.
Wondering if this would work since I was about 8 years old figured somebody already thought of it
Depressing thought experiment: How many revolutionary technologies never get developed because the person who thought of it doesn't have the confidence to persue them.
I know I have been guilty of it too.
@derp-construction3341 Same. Add that I was (and still am) a petite blonde female. No one would listen anyway. Mine has been around music/vibration/sound/sunlight through ocean capturing and dolphins communications... 🤔 It's not too late, I know... I'm planning on living to 120 plus and I'm only half way there now.
all the best to make that SSPD successful !
cool stuff!!!!
making Sci fi a step closer to reality!
Fascinating!
Rather than build giant solar arrays in orbit & beam the power to Earth, this technology could be used to transmit power from an Earth-based array (say in the Sahara Desert) to receivers in populated areas, right?
That's completely unnecessary. That defeats the whole purpose of building SSPD.
I think sspp is supposed to be cost efficient. Making an entire array in the Sahara would cost too much, not including the satelites
There was nothing in the article or video about the energy return on energy invested. Is it greater than 1.0, for the entire system, including construction, launch, ground receiver and processing, operations, transmission connection, ...? Otherwise, it's a net energy loss.
I just filmed a documentary at Caltech and JPL interviewing the three lead scientists and all of the grad students regarding this project. The solar panels they created are completely flexible they are 12 inches Square they weigh less than 1 oz and they use the existing SpaceX Rockets to launch them into space, rockets that are already being launched on a daily basis. They are one of the most inexpensive things to send into space because they are so incredibly small and Light they then turn the solar energy 100% of which they absorb into microwave radiation which is transmitted to Earth, anywhere on Earth . They are incredibly efficient
Space-based solar panels can generate 2,000 gigawatts of power constantly. This is 40 times more energy than a solar panel would generate on Earth annually. This is also several folds higher than the efficiency of solar panels today.Mar 13, 2024
I can reduce cost and/or raise effeciency of the multijunction solar cell,significant cost reduction
is nice....l understand we have to use solar energy.. for make everything work but my question..way we don't have.. different type of energy... not fossil fuel or nuclear the have to be something right 🤔😃
Please provide a link to the music!
Music? This sort of Musak drives me nuts. I kill the sound to protect my sanity.
Microwaves heat up water. Does anybody involved in the project take it into account? I heard we fight global warming, don't we?
ofc you are first comming with this and noone else before you ever thought of that, ehm, lol...
My brother in piss, the sun heats the atmosphere more than this thing.
It's not a microwave oven OMG. I literally filmed a documentary about this project with the lead scientists at Caltech and jpl. Trust me they are way smarter than you are
Our beautiful starry nights are going to completely disappear, instead we'll have more power to mine bitcoin and faster instagram in rural India. I can't wait for such a future
Um, you're planning to test wireless power transfer from where to where? From Maple to Maple? What the hell is Maple , what happened to the "tile" that had built in integrated PV and RF? What happened to beaming energy to Earth? Did withdrawal from Afghanistan cut your Northrop Grumman funding?
No, just no
Why not, Merle? I'm sincerely curious as to what could be wrong with this project?
@@gsmontag Scientists already know what's wrong with it, why they aren't talking about it is beyond me? The problem is cost-to-benefit and LEO satellite congestion. It's as simple as that. They know earth-bound energy production systems will be far more efficient in the future and space-centered energy production is a fools errand. Sounds good, but highly impractical.
@@gsmontag It falls into the same nutty category as "gravitational tractor".
@@merlepatterson I agree it is not a near-term solution to energy needs on Earth, it is at best a far future concept for terrestrial applications, or for niche ones only. That said, I believe many concepts involve these devices stationed at geostationary orbit. I do agree, I think, that we should be primarily focused on decarbonizing energy production and the low hanging fruit/cheapest solutions should be implemented first. I just think we should be exploring all the alternatives, and thinking in the long term.
@@merlepatterson What's wrong with the gravitational tractor method of asteroid deflection? Seems like pretty basic physics and engineering to me. Just requires a long lead time on deflection needs.