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Originally published in Green Home MegaStore in 2009

Hi there!

As usual, I was reading our RSS feeds (you should too, there’s some interesting stuff there) and this time I ran across an article that discussed the potential of having energy beamed to the Earth’s surface from high Earth orbits.

If you’ve been reading Practical Greenology and/or GHMS for a while, you will probably not be surprised at my reaction. I’m simply amazed! And that’s not because I never thought about it before. Let’s assume that the technical and financial hurdles are overcome, and we have a network of satellites beaming solar energy collected in space to us poor, energy-hungry beings here on the surface of Earth.

Do the logic: The Earth consumes – one way or another – the amount of energy that arrives on the Earth’s surface and radiates a sufficient amount back off the planet to keep us essentially balanced – albeit there are anomalies due to major volcanic eruptions, meteor strikes, plus mankind’s atmospheric and oceanic pollution, etc. In any case, the amount of energy out-of-balance is not a significantly high amount. That’s the base case. For an energy-oriented engineer, that’s a balanced system, Energy In – Energy Out = No Change

Project – case one: We sit here and consume an additional 0,5% (a crass assumption, but we have to receive a large amount of energy to be able to pay for the space systems) compared to the solar energy normally landing on the planet. I don’t claim to have the foggiest idea of what the amount of heating rate that would amount to, but I am reasonably certain that it is considerably more than what is being caused by our pollutionary activities. I can imagine that in less than 100 years, the Earth would be totally unlivable for any creature species living here today! Talk about global warming! The engineer’s equation: Energy In – Energy Out = Change in Status Quo (we put in more energy – ultimately heat – than we remove, and start to cook)

Project – case two: We sit here and watch on TV as one of the radiation-gathering satellites goes haywire from a meteroid hit and the energy stream focus moves away from the receiving station and starts wandering around the countryside – destroying everything it comes near in a science fiction-type nightmare. Hmmm… there’s not really an engineer’s equation for this, but maybe FUBAR is an adequate description: Fouled Up Beyond All Recovery (that’s not the Army version :-) ).

Project – case three: More or less the same as case two, except that the deviation of the energy stream is caused by an attack from a political splinter group, either on the ground station (more likely) or on the satellite itself. Same results as case two, except that they may be able to choose their political or politico-economic target – Manhattan, Washington D.C., Paris, Damascus, Mexico City, Tokyo, Seoul, you name it! FUBAR 2!

To be honest, I don’t like any of these scenarios. Do you?

Space Energy System Misused

Thanks for looking in,

Jimmy Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites

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Power From Space?

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I suppose you’re wondering where the name of this blog comes from. I have a site together with my partner Sue called Green Home MegaStore, at http://greenhomemegastore.com. There, we invented – and continue to develop – the concept of “practical greenology”. Below is a quote from our website:

We call it Practical Greenology …

The term “greenology” has not yet made it into Wikipedia, much less “practical greenology,” but a current definition of greenology is

“Greenology” is the recent enlightenment of individuals, corporations, and politicians of the importance of being carbon neutral, environmentally friendly, renewable, earth conscious, cleaner, greener, sustainable, and efficient. (tmg strategies website,
http://undercurrents.tmgstrategies.com/2008/04/22/greenology/).

Our definition of “practical greenology” is

“Practical greenology” is the use in the home by individuals and families of available information, practices, and equipment resulting from the enlightenment of individuals, corporations, and governments concerned with being carbon neutral, environmentally friendly, resource renewable, earth conscious, cleaner, greener, sustainable, and efficient.

What “practical greenology” means is plain English is that we believe in using the best green practices and products in our homes, consistent with the limitations and considerations of everyday life. In short – green and affordable!

We invite you to join us in using and spreading the word about practical greenology.

Here are some of the ways you can really achieve your goals and get practical greenology to work for you

• Read what we have prepared (and will be preparing) for you here at Practical Greenology and on Green Home MegaStore.com
• Copy what we do as we teach you how to do it, continue to use it, and teach others how to use it
• Use the tools we provide for you on the website

We believe that practical greenology will benefit you, your family, your personal ecological sphere, and the world.

Please join us at Green Home MegaStore!

Thanks

Ciao for now,

Craig
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Sue & Craig Websites

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