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From: "Standing Bear"
There is a company called JP Aerospace that has an idea of
going to space in a balloon.... This space
ascender would then leave and ascend in a slow circular pathway
gaining speed with each orbit, more so after leaving the last
traces
of atmospheric friction for practical purposes. Ultimately the
space ascender should arrive at a true rigid space station in
space in synchronous orbit about 20,000 miles up. From there
it would return for another load, taking with it anything
needing
transport back to the surface. They do this, possibilities are
endless. This plan places all its parts at one time or another
in this hydrino region,
and all of these parts could take part in such a hydrino
harvest. This
comment involving the use of others' technologies and ideas
named above
together in a useful and practical form is copyrighted by me,
Lee M.
Castleton, USAF retired.
Very interesting, and thanks for putting this piece of the puzzle
into place. If you are personally in contact with these
individuals, I hope you will write them privately to express the
same sentiment.
That 'puzzle', mentioned above being - how to get space
exploration out of the hands of a top-heavy bureaucracy and
perhaps into the hands of a nimble corporation or small wealthy
country. If for no other reason - then to make it competitive by
offering the lowest cost option. NASA is too focused on
man-in-space, when instead, space is the perfect environment for
artificial intelligence.
Actually several candidate countries come to mind - which are
possessed with both a top-flight (pun intended) education system,
a history of efficient and pragmatic government (desirous of
international recognition) and most of all - wealth - particularly
oil wealth. Norway would be one. Among companies - one would
presently need to merge several types of corporate expertise -
Virgin (Branson) with say Chevron and Intel.
I suspect that this concept, as complicated as it seems, could
still be pulled-off in the short-term for the quarterly profit of
Chevron - spread out over five years - if (BIG IF) the ionosphere
can be harvested for solar hydrinos. Even if the supply is tinier
than the optimists suspect - if there are any at all, that
resource could be put together as a step in yet a bigger package -
one that would put a population of micro-robotic drones on the
moon - to harvest lunar 3He, a proven resource, and then that
would be another step-wise wrinkle in a more complicated hybrid
system.
I don't see the JP "balloon thing" as being very advantageous,
otherwise; unless there is this kind of "harvestable" propellant
in the ionosphere.
And BTW - I'm sure Robin has been thinking about hydrino-induced
fusion more than I have, but the Hy+3He reaction would seen to be
a "natural" (or Hy + 11B, or Hy + 7Li) given the very small atomic
size of the type of solar hydrino-hydride, hypothesized in the
original post (i.e. N= 1/7 or 1/8) should they be in the
ionosphere. You could probably get to breakeven fusion levels with
those using a device as small as a Farnsworth Fusor ... Needless
to say, any type of breakeven fusion in a small device in the
ionosphere - using air buoyancy to shuttle smaller payloads up
with reusable gear - that almost guarantees the availability of
lunar payloads for about cost of terrestrial rail transport -
seriously: pennies per pound instead of hundreds of dollars per
pound.
Hey, Branson may be the man ... if can step-back from his numerous
overload of involvements, and focus on what is needed in the
big-picture for private space exploration. He says that it is his
number-one priority.
Jones
