Submitted by Hardscrabble Farmer
They don’t even try to hide it anymore.
A technology that doesn’t exist, delivered from a platform that hasn’t been built, staged in a place we’ve never been, headed up by a scary looking womyn who was formerly an expert in domestic violence.
What’s not to believe? How does that not sound like a good plan for the hundreds of billions it will “cost” being printed up out of thin air so the debt can be hung around our children’s necks? And their children’s. But I’m sure they won’t charge much for all the radio beamed energy it will provide. Some day.
Stop the world, I want to get off.
US Military Plans To Harvest Solar Energy In Space, Beam It To Earth
The US Air Force (USAF) is experimenting with the idea to harvest space solar power that will be beamed back to Earth as usable energy.
The US Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) shared a video on YouTube describing how the solar power satellite Arachne would work.
AFRL Director Brig. Gen. Heather Pringle, quoted by Breaking Defense, said the critical design review of Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research Project (SSPIDR) would be conducted this summer.
SSPIDR aims to use an Arachne satellite that would convert energy generated from the sun to radio frequency and beam it down to a land-based antenna. Once the radio frequency hits the antenna, it will be converted to useable power.
If SSPIDR is successful, it could one day give the US military a great advantage on the modern battlefield and an unlimited source of energy for forward operating bases. This will also allow for bases to power future weapons, such as lasers and rail guns.
At the moment, the military requires massive supply chains and convoys to receive not just energy power generation equipment but also fuel to power generators at remote bases.
“Ensuring that a forward operating base maintains reliable power is one of the most dangerous parts of military ground operations. Convoys and supply lines are a major target for adversaries,” the narrator of a new AFRL video said.
Well, this appears to be one way the military is attempting to “go green.”
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Oh man; when they play the heroic soundtrack with french horns know that the system’s cost will be astronomical.
(WOn’t the EMP used in the upcoming war ensure all non-protected electrical circuits are all fried? Meaning this is a Deep State fun project with plenty of boondoggles, perks, and parties.)
“Stop the world, I want to get off.”
Mega dittos from Canada.
Or get more funds that will be declared “fungible” and thus spread across the budget lines of many other favorite programs and pet rocks. Remember the Future Combat Systems? There was enough ice cream and chocolate sauce for everybody in that one…..
Lemme guess…this is where the “Jewish Space Lasers” will come into play directing the power to specific locations.
Oops. Someone just blew up the expensive satellite. Damn.
member as a kid when you zapped ants with a magnifying glass? *snap*, *crackle*, *pop*…
Stop with all the criticism. Our soldiers will be safe. Unless there’s a cloud. I remind you, this woman is one aneurysm away from being President of the United States. And we didn’t vote for her. https://mobile.twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1398338009494396933
Maff, especially ancient Egyptian maff, be hard.
Didn’t they do their cipherin on an abacus?
Wow.
This has been discussed for the last twenty years. Gather solar in orbit and transmit via microwave. All very sound theory I am told. Two cents per kw, bring power to those poor third worlders etc.
Originally it was going to be “tethered” to earth via a nanotube cable. Of course they were going to have to invent the nanotube cable first. It was going to utilize some kind of elevator gizmo which would allow the construction materials to be lifted to the construction site in outer space and be 22,000 miles long or some such wildass thing.
Musk or someone like that has proposed doing similar things with satellites similar to this idea of hundreds or thousands of satellites providing $5 month ultra high speed internet from orbit.
If the Earth is spinning at 1,000mph and the geosynchronous platform is 22,ooo miles above the surface, how fast would it have to spin in order to maintain a static position?
For over 30 years now Microsoft hasn’t been able to figure out how to keep phishing emails with their own name in the headers out of my focused inbox, nor to distinguish between legitimate emails and the tens of thousands I get from Aisha Ghadafi and her ilk, but something this complex is going to happen?
It’s all lies.
Too much science fiction reading by the Gen X-file crowd.
Ye of little faith. /sarc
HSF, a farm lady gave me 18 eggs today. She said they will last 30 days outside of refrigeration if I don’t wash them. As soon as I wash them, I’ve got to refrigerate them.
T/F?
A fertilized egg takes a little over three weeks to hatch. During that time it is protected by a layer called the bloom. It keeps bacteria from getting in and moisture from escaping. So yeah, don’t wash them- unless they’re nest dirty, in which case eat those first. We keep them in a bowl on the table. Cold eggs don’t cook as well as room temperature eggs either, so there’s that.
18 eggs is a pretty nice gesture. You’ll get hooked, big difference from the factory ones.
Thank you for answering. I met her at a Memorial Day Festival at my father’s church today. Yes, I thought it was VERY nice of her to do that.
They do have dirt on them. Is that what you mean by “nest dirty”? Do I HAVE TO wash them now, or can I wait until I cook them?
Donkey,
Check it out…
PS: I have food grade mineral oil…and I also have a stack of glass jars to store them.
Thank you!!
Hey, are you going to HSF’s farm on the 4th this year?
No my NC family (two 1st cousins) are having a get together…we have been doing it for the last 8 years, every 4th.
GNL _ Nest dirt is poop… You can damp cloth the poop off but not the rest of the egg. You don’t have to wash them at all, even before cooking. Once cracked into the pan, wash your hands to you don’t cross contaminate, and thats it.
I could never tell the difference, but nothing about my brain works in the morning.
I kept an egg on the counter for 8 months and fed it to my (now ex) wife. She thought breakfast was delicious. They can last a lot longer than three weeks unrefrigerated.
Guess it didn’t work as hoped, Jimmy 😉
When we were in Malta the eggs were never refrigerated. Then when we had the farm we never refrigerated the eggs either. People in N America freak out when eggs aren’t refrigerated. They don’t know that if unwashed they’ll last 3 – 4 weeks without spoiling. When our birds were allowed to broad a batch of eggs they’d lay one a day, then sit on them adter reaching 12 – 14 eggs, thats two weeks, and they’d all hatch.
“1.91 miles per second
A geostationary orbit can be achieved only at an altitude very close to 35,786 kilometres (22,236 miles) and directly above the equator. This equates to an orbital speed of 3.07 kilometres per second (1.91 miles per second) and an orbital period of 1,436 minutes, one sidereal day.” I have aimed many TVRO (TV receive only) reflectors. Something is out there and as you change latitude you have to change the angle of the reflector. I think is on you flat earthers to explain how it would work in your scenario.
Twenty Years?
Arthur C. Clarke, end of the 1960s, who wrote science fiction,
and fact based scientific material. He put the idea forward for
this system way back when. He was one of it’s first proponents.
His articles on Geosynchronous systems go back to 1945.
One of the main reason this system has always been dismissed
is that it can not be defended. It will always be a sitting duck,
unless you have full and unquestioned “Space Superiority”
before the first shot is fired in anger.
It ain’t easy being green….(cough).
Who is the biggest consumer of helium in the world? Answer if you know, then explain why.
More CGI from the Imaginarium.
Clue- NASA is the biggest consumer of helium in the world.
People worry about fake climate change and fake peak oil when they should worry about running out of helium.
True indeed. Worked at one of the few plants in the world that produced helium in liquid and gaseous form. Helium was a very small percentage of the inlet gas. Very complicated and expensive to make. Came from old oil and gas wells.
Sound like another F35 grift. Space Force ya know
Sweet! Our military can finally go green and eliminate all of their carbon emissions!
Except China is presumably in the lead is ASAT technology.
https://www.globalsecurity.org/space/world/china/asat.htm
Now, I’m sure our woke military is way up to date on ASAT capabilities, but the Chinese have DONE it.
14 years ago.
https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/china-destroys-satellite-with-missile.152637/
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-china-could-win-war-against-america-kill-satellites-85176
The Chinese are on a CHINA FIRST policy, US government stooges are on a ME FIRST policy.
Don’s stop the world. I’m staying for the ride. It’s going to be wilder than anything I’ve ever seen.
Sending the power back to earth is code for Direct Energy Weapon.
boom…
It probably wouldn’t be a good thing to be anywhere near where this beam comes to earth.
Where’s my government grant for a study to find ways to bottle unicorn farts?
You can vote for a rainbow but you cannot bottle one.
Unicorns poop cupcakes.
Well as this brand of engineering is something I do. The big items I see are the abysmal efficiency (~12% in the link with no obstructions, shmaybe 20=25% in the panels means a maximum clear day means about 3% of the panel surface area makes it to the transmission side of the power grid dirt side. Local power grids are not efficient either, so maybe 1% of the actual sunlight turns into power on the ground….
Now all of that surface area has to be lifted to a high orbit ($$$$), and that much surface area has a couple of things working against it…A) just like a solar sail there are forces acting against it both from particle pressure and molecular drag. B) There is a lot of debris man made and natural that will treat those panels as paper targets at the range. C) those paper targets are far away and hard to /expensive to get to in order to repair/maintain them.
Sounds like a great way to spend lots of fantasy money.