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WORLD-SAVING VIA ORBITAL MILLENNIUM TECH

THE ARCHIMEDEAN ORBITAL SOLAR POWER SYSTEM USING LECSO* FOR SUPPLANTING

& MULTIPLYING ALL PRESENT SOURCES ON EARTH

*Liquid Epihydrostatical Capillary Space Optics

Jan. 29, 2008

By J.H. Bloomer. Copyright 2008

By J.H. Bloomer

ABSTRACTLasers not needed! Incoherent solar light should be fully adequate. My optical satellites (two 2-satellite

units) will orbit the sun, not earth, in earths orbital path, one unit just ahead, the other just behind earth.

Each will consist of a (holed) plane MIRROR, AND A (same large diameter) paraboloidal mirror.

The plane mirror is at 45o

with respect to the orbital path, and sends its beam in the opposite direction of

earth, to illuminate the paraboloidal mirror. The latter focuses its reflected beam toward earth, through

the hole, onto the top of an 80,000-ft.-tall beanstalk over the North Pole, for six months. Then the

other 2-satellite unit takes over (focuses on the top of the beanstalk over the North Pole). My

beanstalk sits above the Pole, and on the flat balloon atop it is either a sea of solar cells or a plane

mirror to divert the beam to such a sea at the beanstalk foot on the ocean surface. Or, the beam is

directed to ordinary boilers and dynamos at the beanstalk foot on the ocean surface.

My mirrors are self-formed in space from containers of liquids spread to a certain depth on unfurled

plastic sheets.

Energy is money. Enriching all mortals beyond their wildest dreams is a matter of supplying them with

limitless energy. The sun produces limitless energy. Here s how to bring it to earth. ITS ALL DONE WITH

MIRRORS (a la Archimedes):

Archimedes of antiquity, great Greek mathematician & scientist, of course, was called on by his fellow

Syracusans in the Roman siege of his native Syracuse, to devise solar mirrors to concentrate the rays of

the sun on the Roman ships in the harbor, and so set them on fire, which he proceeded to do! (the

Syracusans lost the war anyway, and Archimedes was killed when he disobeyed a Roman soldier who

ordered him to stop drawing figures in the sand.)

Briefly, total of all sources of utility power on earth today (hydro-power, coal-and-oil-burning dynamos,

nuclear power stations, autotrucks, etc.) may amount to only about 15 terawatts (15 trillion watts). My

system would supply us with four times that much (for starters) if desired.


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Like Archimedes, Id use mirrors huge mirrors, to concentrate the rays of the sun. But Id mount my

mirrors on satellites in orbit.

These mirrors would roll around the sun, in earths own orbit, just like the earth. But unlike the earth,

they wouldnt spin around every 24 hours.

They would spin around once in exactly one year. Why?

Because these mirrors one just aheadof earth, in earths orbit (see FIG. II), and the other just behind

earth, also in earths own orbit (see FIG. I), would always focus the rays of the sun (from 93 million miles

away), down on a beanstalk-top, 80,000 ft. above a power station on earth, on the sea,AT THE NORTH

POLE!

Since these mirrors always point their beams at a beanstalk-top above the North Pole, that takes one

year to travel in a circle around the sun, each beam turns through exactly 360 degrees in one years time.

But why two, 2-mirror, satellite units? And two beams?

The earths axis is titled 23 degrees from straight-up-and-down, to the plane of its orbit around the sun.

THIS IS WHAT CREATES OUR SEASONS: But the axis of the earth always points at the same star, even

while the earth itself rolls around the sun (completing a complete circuit in one year).

How are seasons created?

As the earth rolls around the sun, on June 21 its 23o-titled axis (which of course is fixedly pointing at a

single star), is inclined most toward the sun. This means that, at that time, we in America receive the

most direct rays of the sun, and the days are the longest. The result is summer.

SUN

Sept. 21

Dec. 21 June 21

March 21

FIG. I TRAILING MIRRORS ORBITAL HISTORY

23o

Focus

Blocked

By Earth

Reflected,

Concentrated

Beam From

Solar Rays

Trailing

Paraboloidal Mirror

Earth Orbit

North Pole

Earth globe rendering

by NASA


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SUN

Sept. 21

Dec. 21 June 21

March 21

23o

Focus

Blocked

By Earth

Reflected,

Concentrated

Beam From

Solar Rays

FIG. II PRECEDING MIRRORS ORBITAL HISTORY

Earth Orbit

Preceding

Paraboloidal Mirror

North Pole

SUN

FIG. III PRECEDING MIRROR (DUAL) SYSTEM ON SEPT. 21

Earths Orbit Of Sun

EARTH

Focused

BeamSea of Solar Cells

or Plane Mirror to

Divert Focus to

Surface Sea

Beanstalk Paraboloidal Mirror To

Focus Reflected Solar Rayson North Poles Bean-

Stalks Sea of Solar Cells

or Plane Mirror

Plane Mirror @ 45o

To Orbital Path, To

Divert Solar Rays To

Paraboloidal Mirror

Earth Axis

Hole in

Plane Mirror

Earth globe rendering

by NASA


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FIG. IV BEANSTALK

A A

CHORD

CHORD/4 = AERODYNAMIC CENTER

Wind direction

SECTION AA

SURFACE

TO SOLAR-CELL SEA (DISC-

PLANFORM BALLOON @

80,000 FT. ALTITUDE

BEANSTALK UMBILICAL WITH AERODYNAMIC SHROUD

-Copyright 2000 by DISCRAFT Corp.-

WEATHERVANE/AEROFAIRING

SLEEVE (HELIUM BALLOON

500-LONG SECTION)

SWIVEL BEARING

SLEEVE BEARINGUMBILICAL

PACKING (HOLDS

2 COPPER WIRES)

UMBILICAL-SUPPORT

BEARING (MOUNTED IN

BALLOON)

NOTE I: SECTION WILL ALIGN

ITSELF WITH PREVAILING WIND

AT THAT ALTITUDE;

AERODYNAMIC FAIRING OFFERS

1/40TH

THE DRAG THAT ROUND

UMBILICAL OF IDENTICAL

FRONTAL (WIND-DIRECTION)

PROJECTED AREA, WOULD

OFFER

NOTE II: EACH SECTION IS

PRESSURIZED WITH HELIUM &

FITTED AT EACH END W/ A

HELIUM-TIGHT BEARING

AROUND THE UMBILICAL,

THUS EACH SECTION ACTS

LIKE A MINIATURE HELIUM

BALLOON

NOTE III: BEARING-RING

WASHER (EACH) HARD-

MOUNTED TO UMBILICAL (CF.,

WELDED); THUS EACH SECTIONSUPPORTS WEIGHT OF LENGTH

OF UMBILICAL PASSING

THROUGH THAT SECTION


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But when the earth has rolled exactly 180o

further in its orbit around the sun, on December 21st

, its axis is

inclined most away from the sun. This means that we in America receive the most indirect rays of the

sun, and the days are the shortest. The result is winter.

All right, but what does this have to do with mirror satellite-pairs to shine concentrated solar rays out to

an energy-collecting station 80,000-ft. above the (ocean) surface at the North Pole?

On June 21, the trailing mirror-pair satellite, in earths orbit, which always points (or tries to point) its

concentrated, reflected solar beam at the beanstalk-top 80,000-ft. above the North Pole, has just

concluded six months during which its beam rotated 180o

in direction, BUT STILL ALWAYS POINTED THAT

BEAM EXACTLY AT THE BEANSTALK-TOP ABOVE THE NORTH POLE!

However, afterJune 21, the beam from the trailingsatellites solar-concentrating mirror, is increasingly

obstructed by the earth itself, due to the earths fixed 23o

tilt (pointing always at a single star), such

that the earth itself increasingly blocks off the focused beam from the paraboloidal satellite mirror, and

prevents it from reaching the beanstalk-top above the North Pole.

This is true for the trailing mirror-satellite pair.

But the preceding MIRROR-SATELLITE PAIR, STARTS TO COME INTO ITS OWN, on June 21: its

concentrated beam, from June 21 on, strikes the beanstalk-top above the North Pole more and more

directly, until on Sept. 21, its beam strikes the beanstalk-top above the North Pole most directly (i.e.,

with a minimum path through the atmosphere).

Then on Dec. 21, the preceding mirror-pair satellite has to send its focused beam through a maximum

atmospheric path to the beanstalk-top 80,000-ft. above the North Pole, until rather soon - it is

blocked completely by the earth itself, from sending its focus to the beanstalk-top above the North

Pole.

Of course, at that point, the trailing mirror-pair satellite, is permitted to more and more directly point its

beam at the beanstalk-top above the North Pole, until March 21, when its beam is most directly

focused on the beanstalk-top above the North Pole (i.e., when the beam enjoys a minimum path

through the atmosphere).

Then, of course, the whole cycle repeats itself, again, and again, and again.

HOW CAN MIRRORS THIS LARGE AND THIS HIGH-PRECISION, BE ECONOMICALLY BOOSTED TO ORBIT OR

ECONOMICALLY FABRICATED THERE, AND ECONOMICALLY BUILT IN THE FIRST PLACE?

Astronomical-quality mirrors on earth, for example, say for large telescopes (which is the kind of quality

needed here), regularly increase in cost by the fourth power of the diameter. This factor portends a

horrendous cost for conventional mirrors large enough to handle significant solar energy, even without

cost of the boost to orbit.

However, my Sixties invention of (variational-calculus-based) LIQUID SPACE OPTICS predicts orders-of-magnitude (100 or 1000 times or more) improvement in cost of precision (astronomical-quality), very

large (hundreds or thousands of ft. diameter) orbital plane or paraboloidal mirrors, via self-spread, very


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shallow, liquid pools (mirrors), fixed in shape and placement by surface chemistry (branch of physical

science).

The kinds of mirror satellites I envision as I mentioned, for the above application, are respectively two-

stage, with the first stage being a large, free-liquid-surface, plane (or flat) mirror (with a large hole in

center), oriented always at 45

o

from the directionof the sun, as it orbits the sun (see illustration FIG. III).

For the trailing satellite-pair, this plane mirror is oriented to throw its reflected solar beam backwards,

away from the earth, to illuminate another, earth-path-following, free-liquid-surface mirror, but a

paraboloidal one, with axis oriented always to focus its reflected beam forward on the beanstalk-top

above the North Pole.

For the preceding satellite-pair, this plane mirror is oriented to throw its reflected solar beam forward,

away from earth, to illuminate another, earth-path-following, free-liquid-surface mirror, but a

paraboloidal one, with axis oriented to focus its reflected beam always backward, through the plane

mirrors hole, onto on the beanstalk-top above the North Pole.

The receptorof these focused beams (see Beanstalk illustration, FIG. IV), is either a sea of solar cells

occupying the flat surface of a round, flat, pancake-shaped, largehelium balloonatop the beanstalk, or

it is a large, flat, plane mirror atop the beanstalk, which is oriented to divert the concentrated beam

down to the base on the ocean, which contains ordinary boilers and dynamos. In the latter case, of

course, the large plane mirror atop the beanstalk is mounted on (against) the large, flat helium balloon,

in lieu of the sea of solar cells.

Each orbital plane mirror illuminates a paraboloidal mirror, of the same diameter size, also in earths

orbital path. These paraboloidal mirrors respectively focus the associated plane mirrors intersected beam

ahead or back (as required), through the associated plane mirrors large central hole, onto a backward -

rotating, 24-hour-period, flat-balloon-supported plane mirror or sea of solar cells atop the multiple-

balloon-supported beanstalk (of my earlier invention), above the North Pole.

Power is carried either by wires from the 80,000-ft.-high solar-cell-sea, or by the reflected beam down to

a station of boilers-and-dynamos at the beanstalks base on the Arctic Ocean.

From the North-Pole ocean-surface-station beneath the beanstalk, power is distributed all over earth in

standard grids, by heavily-insulated high-tension cables, submerged to great depths in the ocean itself,

AND CONNECTED TO EXISTING GLOBAL POWER-DISTRIBUTION STATIONS IN VARIOUS NATIONS.

The North Pole is chosen (although the South Pole would be equally attractive for receiving the

preceding/trailing satellite beams for, respectively, six months of the year), for two reasons:

I) North Pole is closer to most major industrial nations, or power-consumers;II) Running high-tension cables IN ALL DIRECTIONS ON OR UNDER THE ICE from a sub-beanstalk

power station located at the South Pole, would engineering-wise be far more expensive than

running the same cables under the ocean surface from the North Pole.


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THE GREAT ADVANTAGE OF THE PRESENT PROPOSED SYSTEM, OVER ALL PREVIOUS PROPOSED SUCH

SYSTEMS (ALL USING MY SUPER-LOWCOST, SUPER-PRECISION, LIQUID SPACE OPTICS), IS THAT,

EVIDENTLY, NO ORBITAL LASERS ARE REQUIRED; IT APPEARS THAT THIS ENTIRE (PRESENT) SYSTEM, CAN

BE BASED ON ORDINARY SOLAR (INCOHERENT) LIGHT!

THE COST SAVING (IN INVESTMENT) WILL THEREBY BE ANOTHER SEVERAL ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE (I.E.,

100 OR 1000 TIMES!)

But much work must be done by astronauts in orbit of the sun or well outside the Van Allen belts. Ralph

Ren, in NASA MOONED AMERICA, has shown that Apollo must have been accomplished by an entirely

different system than claimed, as astronauts could not even have survived briefly in the lethal radiation

levels outside the Van Allen belts. This judgement is confirmed by standard cislunar radiation science.

However, an exponential approach to creating larger & larger examples of my solar-energy-based,

coherent-beam-supplied spacecraft, should end by providing sufficient radiation-protection forastronauts working totally outside the Van Allen belts (for example, with adequate lead shielding).

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