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- From: boylan@sltg04.ljo.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Newsgroups: alt.pagan
- Subject: Re: Space, the final frontier
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.164215.19718@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:42:15 GMT
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- Reply-To: boylan@ljohub.enet.dec.com (Steve Boylan)
- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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- Oh, why not join this happy mutual grilling?
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- One item that keeps popping up in this thread is the idea of
- getting cheap, clean electricity from orbiting power satellites.
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- Not to be a spoilsport, but . . .
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- What power density is necessary to transfer, say, 25% of North
- America's power needs from orbiting satellites to Earth-based
- power receivers?
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- What frequencies are most efficient for power transfers from
- orbit to the Earth's surface?
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- How much microwave radiation does that expose people to?
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- How does that compare with current microwave exposure levels?
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- Based on our current understanding of the effects of microwave
- radiation on human beings, what health hazards would this pose?
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- What level of health hazard would you consider acceptable?
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- - - Steve
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