At 04:30 PM 10/1/2001 -0400, James B. DiGriz wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>"James B. DiGriz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >>> >><snip> Declan's note about ADM hogs at the trough with lots of other >>hogs... >> >>>A far more productive application of corporate welfare would be if that >>>money were spent on engineering research and development of >>>geosynchronous solar power microwave relays, fusion and advanced fission >>>reactors, permanent manned statons on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, etc. >>>The planet and its politics would likely be a lot cleaner. Just one >>>beneficial side effect. >>> >>Just wait until some orbiting uwave controller goes bonserk and boils a >>slice of America from DC to San Franciso. Oops. > > >Power density in the proposed systems has been at least nominally low >enough you could safely graze cattle in the beam. This ain't a Star Wars >death-ray. Not even close.
Beam density of the project I'm aware is estimated as 23mW/cm2 at the center of the rectenna and 1mw/cm2 at the rectenna edge. steve
