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Originally Posted by Roflmao
Yeah I agree with just about everything you said haha. I am just a tad concerned about the microwaves shooting lasers down into a plant to be distributed to the power grid. Is the technology to make it efficient available? I know the solar panels in the sky can soak up energy, but can it be transfered to earth without wasting it? I wouldn't know how a solar panel would be able to keep in position to beam the lasers down constantly either, but thats why I'm not into aeronautics.
With the fusion stuff, yeah its not the easiest thing to figure out how to contain the plasma, but thats why I was proposing more funding for it. I could be wrong but I remember that the idea of a magnetic field could somehow be manipulated to deflect the heat as well as the plasma in order to contain it all, in theory. It is 50 years away, but why not put more money towards it and make it 30 years away? JMO.
As far as the whole school thing, I should have been a bit more specific haha. I love physics and chemistry and all that good stuff, but to go get a PhD in it, I'm not sure I could do. Reasons for that is I wouldn't be out of school until I was in my 30s, and at that point, I'm not even sure if I could do that stuff on a daily basis. I like the science of it, but only for fun, if it was my job I'm not sure I could do it.
Oh and dragon, those are fission reactors, they produce the nuclear waste. Thats why I want fusion. Fusion=more power than fission without any waste as well.
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Well, I'm not too sure about the science of microwave power, but I know enough of the pieces to give it a shot. Getting a satalite to stay in place over a single spot is easy. Its called geosynchronous orbit and communication and GPS satellites rely on this. Lasers are extremely efficient at sending energy from one point to another so an extremely high percentage of energy sent will be recieved, approaching 100%. Microwaves also have the interesting property of heating water extremely well, look at a microwave oven. And heating water is the main way to produce power. Thats how nuclear, coal, oil, biomass, natural gas, and some types of solar and geothermal work. So all of the basic concepts seem to be valid with few obvious draw backs.
And using electro-magnetism to deflect radiated heat? Hmm, I guess it could work. Radiated heat is electromagnetic waves (infrared light). So it should be possible to influence them with EM.