On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
> I got an idea about a month ago that can change the world. I > am starting to build a community around it. It is far enough > along to involve local volunteers. If things work out, this > could provide thousands of jobs in the Portland area, bring > internet service to the world, save gigawatts of power > generation, and eventually replace most of the electric > power generation on earth. A major game changer. > > The idea is an enormous array of orbiting satellites that are > little more than a naked solar cell with processor chips, > memory chips, and radio chips hung around the edge. These > "server-sats" will be about 40 cm across, thinner than a > sheet of paper, and weigh perhaps 30 grams (2 grams is > possible). They can be launched in stacks of 33,000 , > perhaps 4 stacks to a launch, and deployed in arrays. They > turn solar power into computation and communication to the > ground. Transmitting as a phased array, they can communicate > with multiple small regions on the ground, more like cell > phones than sat-phones. Ah. All this time I had been confused about the talk of cloud computing. This makes a lot more sense ;) I wouldn't be surprised if this is the future, but I'll be honest in that it's hard to imagine harnessing what you describe. I need to read your wiki I think. Knowing concrete examples of what you can do would help me understand it. As a software guy, I want to figure out where I would fit in the loop so to speak. Thanks for the cool idea Keith! Jason _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
