Solar panels in space....

[kadee79]

And one the size of a pizza box can power an ipad....sooooo, how big are these going to have to be & how much 'space trash' will they create in the long run?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was widely mocked and criticized for having suggested Jewish-run space lasers might be responsible for California's wildfires. But it turns out the technology she flagged — orbiting panels that beam solar energy to Earth — does exist, at least in prototype form, CNN reports. Only instead of the Rothschilds, the Pentagon controls the technology, and instead of destroying California's forests and homes, Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Modules (PRAMs) could provide emergency power during natural disasters.



The Pentagon sent a prototype PRAM into orbit in May 2020 aboard its secretive X-37B unmanned drone. The 12-inch-square photovoltaic panel showed it's capable of producing 10 watts of energy, or enough to power an iPad, to transmit back to Earth, Paul Jaffe at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., told CNN. The advantages of putting solar panels in space include constant sunlight, more powerful light including blue waves filtered out by the Earth's atmosphere, and the ability to direct power to where it's needed most at any given time.



"You can send power to Chicago and a fraction of a second later, if you needed, send it instead to London or Brasilia," Jaffe said. If enough solar panels are grouped together, it could provide enough clean electricity to power a city, he said. That would have been extremely helpful last week, Jaffe's colleague Chris DePuma told CNN last week. "My family lives in Texas and they're all living without power right now in the middle of a cold front because the grid is overloaded," DePuma said. "So if you had a system like this, you could redirect some power over there, and then my grandma would have heat in her house again."

news.yahoo.com/u-scientists-shown-plausible-power-133410556.html

[thyme4change]

This sounds cool.

[Tiny]

Kind of surprised Marjorie Taylor Greene didn't go the "they will block the sun! we will all starve when all the plants die!" route. I guess space lasers sounds cooler.

[djAdvocate]

what denomination are those lasers.

because if they are not Christian, we want no part of it.

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Feb 24, 2021 13:43:09 GMT -5 kadee79 said:

And one the size of a pizza box can power an ipad....sooooo, how big are these going to have to be & how much 'space trash' will they create in the long run?

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) was widely mocked and criticized for having suggested Jewish-run space lasers might be responsible for California's wildfires. But it turns out the technology she flagged — orbiting panels that beam solar energy to Earth — does exist, at least in prototype form, CNN reports. Only instead of the Rothschilds, the Pentagon controls the technology, and instead of destroying California's forests and homes, Photovoltaic Radiofrequency Antenna Modules (PRAMs) could provide emergency power during natural disasters.



The Pentagon sent a prototype PRAM into orbit in May 2020 aboard its secretive X-37B unmanned drone. The 12-inch-square photovoltaic panel showed it's capable of producing 10 watts of energy, or enough to power an iPad, to transmit back to Earth, Paul Jaffe at the U.S. Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C., told CNN. The advantages of putting solar panels in space include constant sunlight, more powerful light including blue waves filtered out by the Earth's atmosphere, and the ability to direct power to where it's needed most at any given time.



"You can send power to Chicago and a fraction of a second later, if you needed, send it instead to London or Brasilia," Jaffe said. If enough solar panels are grouped together, it could provide enough clean electricity to power a city, he said. That would have been extremely helpful last week, Jaffe's colleague Chris DePuma told CNN last week. "My family lives in Texas and they're all living without power right now in the middle of a cold front because the grid is overloaded," DePuma said. "So if you had a system like this, you could redirect some power over there, and then my grandma would have heat in her house again."

news.yahoo.com/u-scientists-shown-plausible-power-133410556.html

Raleigh scattering with microwave transmission througn the atmosphere offsets any energy gain by having the panels in orbit. 

Angled transmission increases the effect. 

The cost would be so high that grandma wouldn't be using this to heat her living room anytime soon. 

Interesting as a concept.


Reality ? 

Have generators at standby at a fema storage facility with aircraft to transport

[thyme4change]

Feb 24, 2021 22:13:53 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

what denomination are those lasers.

because if they are not Christian, we want no part of it.

Gay space laser are the most colorful.

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I could see this used in very limited military operations. 

However it would seem to be a solution to a problem that needs to be created. 

A couple ounces of an solid state batteries built into ones Military uniform/clothes /backpack, could also supply emergency power.