Timeline for A big primitive computer in orbit, very big, powerful but old technologies from 80's, V2.0 on-topic revamp
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| Aug 10, 2021 at 23:04 | comment | added | MolbOrg | The best stepping stone is the moon as a pile of materials, bootstrapping industry in space, make and test what we need for a living there, teleoperate what necessarily until you get there, and lit a patch in pacific with microwaves and rectennas to get electricity - to build means to lift people(billions, if that is the plan) and get required energy - again some combination of things. energy isn't a big factor here, because when one gets to the point of needing it there already will be possibilities to solve that problem in a number of ways. i mean good luck making the q in a good way, lol. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 22:46 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | @MolbOrg I was thinking along the same lines, it might just work best as a stepping stone to a space-based civ. or off-planet civ. - no single solution is ideal. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 22:39 | comment | added | MolbOrg | Better technologies and implementation of active supporting structures may lift, to the point almost removing the limits of energy-producing/consuming so as to be the way to deliver energy, replacing most of the other ways. But essentially living in space is a better deal, sure it has some price but it offers more, just much more. So that energy delivery makes sense in different times/circumstances but it has no universal solutions and destiny to be replaced. The same problem as with my q - there is no universal cash cow for the situation, same with energy delivery - no universal solution | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 22:39 | comment | added | MolbOrg | the thing is in form of a ring, cut in a center for not to affect radiation coming to earth, but some sort of umbrella that can scale radiation down, maybe tracking some regions as the earth rotates or cut some portion of the spectrum infrared one - not impossible, when you do one thing so you can build another one for that purpose. on the other hand, fusion efficiency can be 99% (thermodynamics-wise) subtract that with umbrella - can be very convenient - energy produced where it is consumed. For specific projects, energy can be beamed - rectennas and phased arrays may be a good option. | |
| Aug 10, 2021 at 21:52 | comment | added | Escaped dental patient. | @MolbOrg I didn't want to duplicate answers to this question by explaining any one of the suggested methods - in fact I'm thinking about coming up with an alternative question which doesn't involve roasting the planet (adding to the pre-existing temperature issues by beaming more energy down), but still solves the energy need issue. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 7:07 | comment | added | MolbOrg | You guessed it right, power consumption of the thing is about 40e16 W, this is a K1 device. Fortunatly or not, but in a market framework nothing runs on good wishes, and before thinking how to get that energy to the planet or do something useful otherwise - it needs cash to hire people to do R&D or buy useful IP's and this is one of the why's the question. And for that one has the Thing. One of the options sell it to gov or maybe UN, loose control over it and hope they will do good things with it, at least there is a chance, lol. | |
| Aug 7, 2021 at 6:51 | history | edited | MolbOrg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 23:55 | history | edited | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 23:49 | history | edited | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 22:24 | history | edited | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 6, 2021 at 22:16 | history | answered | Escaped dental patient. | CC BY-SA 4.0 |