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Storefront - Power from Space

Balrogga
09-06-2004, 14:15
The Empire of Balrogga would like to announce a cheap alternative to coal power plants, hydro-electric dams, and nuclear power plants.

We have established a network of solar collectors in a near orbit of Sol. The power is transmitted to the SOLAR station located at the Polar Lagrange point of Sol using microwave lasers. The energy collected is in turn transmitted to its sister station located at the Polar Lagrange point of Earth. From here power is transmitted through another network of relay satellites to ground based receiving station. The power is then sent through the power grid to where it is needed most.

There are three basic receiving stations that can be built.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/dishb.jpg
The first consists of a single receiving dish approximately 100 foot (30.5m) diameter that allows the reception of 1 Terawatt power. This is many times the output of a modern nuclear reactor. Price: about 5 million to build and 10% to maintain at peak efficiency.


http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/disha.jpg
This is the arranging of several single dishes into a wide array. The price and maintenance depends upon the number you construct.


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This is the grand daddy of dishes. It is 1000 ft (305m) across. This dish can only be constructed in a carefully excavated site. The dish is actually suspended about 20 ft (3m) from the ground underneath. Four towers support the platform about 300 feet above the face of the dish. This configuration is capable of receiving 1200Tw transmissions. It costs 100 million to build and roughly 5 million a year to maintain.


Each nation who is interested has the option of either building the receiving station themselves (via blueprints I will send) or we can construct it for you (for a 10% fee). After the site is finished I will place a satellite above the station to relay the power to the station.

I know many nations are leery of anything above their territories. I invite any who are interested to view the construction of their satellite to be sure there are no spy packages or weaponry attached. The appointed delegate will also have the option to remain with the equipment until it is sent into orbit.

What is the cost of the transmission? $1 Million per Terawatt per day. This is easily less than 1% what most high efficiency power plants cost. Each day would only cost you $1 million for 20 times what your power plants can produce.

When you order, please specify the amount of Terawatt service you need. I only accept yearly contracts.
Balrogga
09-06-2004, 23:11
bump for customers
Mephista
11-06-2004, 11:21
tag
Moleland
11-06-2004, 11:51
Well, my friend, i'm afraid that I am not impressed. Although solar power is the future, we have solar panels and generators better than your ones. Goodbye my firend, I hope we will speak again the future! :wink:
Babylon 1
12-06-2004, 00:45
I am sorry if you misunderstood my description. I am not offering "solar panels” I have a shroud of solar collectors in orbit between Sol and the planet Mercury.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/scollect.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/orbit.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/E020517.jpg

Over the past few years I have had a couple factories producing them and placing them into orbit.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/mobile_factory.jpg

The satellites are using a Microwave Laser to "beam" the power to the SOLAR Station in a Polar Orbit above the sun

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/satelite1.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/SOLAR_relay_station.jpg

The power is being transmitted to a simular station in orbit above the Earth's pole and then relayed to my customers. The dishes are for receiving the transfer.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/a3_2.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/Terra_10.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/satelite.png

If your "solar panels" are ground based or in the orbit of Earth, then by sheer proximity, one of my Solar Satellite Collectors would outperform yours because of the Magnetosphere of the planet will filter out a majority of the solar energy.

http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/sphere5x3.jpg http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/v248/beldragos/magnetosphere.jpg

If you placed them outside the Magnetosphere, then accept my congratulations. Perhaps we can work together if you also have a high efficiency system like this.
Moleland
13-06-2004, 15:31
MY GOD! That is impressive!!!!!! I'm slightly envyous. But i'm still not interested. And please, we are not from Earth. We from a planet, in a galaxy far, far away.... :)
Praetonia
13-06-2004, 15:52
The problem is a lot of the energy is lost when it's beamed down to earth. It has been looked into but there are many problems.
Moleland
13-06-2004, 16:13
Yeah, well your 'thingys' absorb more energy, but some is lost in transit. But mine absorb less, but it is roughly 90% efficent! Solar panels are greater for space travel... you'll never run out of power. That's why we have developed them so much in baddieland/moleland
Balrogga
14-06-2004, 13:31
Either way both our system work good enough to get a lot of use out of. If we ever meet in game be sure to say HELLO
Moleland
14-06-2004, 20:15
I agree. i'll remember you. i'll add you to my dossier. Goodbye friend. I hope we meet again in the future. :D
Moleland
14-06-2004, 20:17
I agree. i'll remember you. i'll add you to my dossier. Goodbye friend. I hope we meet again in the future. :D
Balrogga
15-06-2004, 07:37
I have done the same. Someday we will meet and the universe will tremble...
Moleland
15-06-2004, 09:00
He he. :lol:
Dyelli Beybi
22-07-2004, 00:42
While Dyelli Beybi is interested in this we are dubious as to claims it is cheaper than coal power. We are also worried about microwave decay between earth and the Station. Unfortunately we will give this product a miss.
Balrogga
22-07-2004, 05:41
While Dyelli Beybi is interested in this we are dubious as to claims it is cheaper than coal power. We are also worried about microwave decay between earth and the Station. Unfortunately we will give this product a miss.

Nuclear Energy is cheaper than coal. Especially once you figure in the cost of extracting the coal and transportation to the powerplants. This system is considerable cheaper than Nuclear Energy.

The decay rate between the Solar Station and the Earth is not relavent because the use of the Microwave Laser mostly cancles this out. The power is highly concentrated into a tight beam, otherwise it would blow through the Earth Relay Station and continue out of our system unless it strikes a large asteroid or planetoid. We are talking several thousand TeraJoules of power transfer per second. If I could not provide the power needs of my prospective customers I would not have offered this service.

If you change your mind please feel free to contact me.
Balrogga
19-10-2004, 05:45
Breakthroughs in military power transferral technology has allow the update of the system. We can now transfer power from the SOLAR Station located at the Sun to the SOLAR Station in orbit above Terra without using the Microwave Transfer Technology we relied upon in the past. We are now relying upon Top Secret Technology developed for the Imperial Stellar Navy. This means there is negligable power loss from the distance traveled between Sol and Terra, resulting in a much more efficient system.
Sileetris
19-10-2004, 05:49
OOC: Guess; is it a weird property of superconductors being able to talk to eachother regardless of distance?
Balrogga
19-10-2004, 11:05
No, Superconductors are not directly involved. It is based upon another principle of my technology.