Recent content by astralfx

@Andrew Mason - Haha, the star trek reference, is great but I don't think my supervisor will like it. @jambaugh @mjg Your title "A Method of Orbital/al-to-Ground Power Transmission" does indeed sound very good. The word "orbital" is catchy. Though I'm aiming to keep the "Space Based Solar...

I'm not 100% sure. But to me you could simply utilize the other vehicle's params and substitute them in with the original. I.e. if a car crashed into a stationary wall, what is the force, just general F=ma, with some standard velocity equation. In this case, car1 at 1000kg and car2 =...

Hello. Here is my executive summary. Anyhave have recommendations for the titles. Originally it is "Space Based Solar Power: A System Review". It's short, snappy, but it doesn't quite portray my thesis and I am specifically looking at one type of SBSP system. But it is unconventional, so...

This field is specialist, only statistics you can find is in published article. It's not normal laser. There specialized for space based satellites, the one I have found from an IAC conference paper allows usage of 40kw lasers in a SPS which need to combined in a mother satellite for high power...

Hello, I need to figure out how to mathematically model via simulations a solar pump in space, or another type of laser that receives input from solar irradiation from the Sun. Amplifies it to the specified frequency i.e. 1064μm, and then transmits it to Earth. The problem is I'm just...

Thanks, that will be very useful. My project is on space-based solar power. Generating solar energy via PV in a SPS, and powering a microwave transmitter or many smaller laser-based SPS. What I'm trying to think of is a practical project. I can do the theory easily, and analyse, modern...

Obviously you can't just use air. There are much higher concentrations of some gases in the atmosphere. And gaseous attenuation, scattering and diffraction effects would occur on lasers/microwaves being transmitted through the atmosphere. So no, air just wouldn't do it. My idea is too...

Nope.

I would like to analyse the effects of passing a laser/microwave through the Earth's atmosphere, in relation to space-based solar power. As I can't do my experiment on the real scale. I would like to know if it's possible to scale it down. I.e. replicating the relative amounts of gas at...

Nice idea on using baby powder to visually display the transmission. Hmmm... Interesting, I will definitely look into this and discuss it with my supervisor, as I have never heard about this "phased array" feedback. Mind linking the paper?

Of course. I can't use a giant microwave dish and antenna for obvious reasons. But I looked online for receivers and transmitters, problem is they are all products of sending actual data such as routers. I haven't done any calculations yet, but I don't think my power output from the a few PV...

So my supervisor has fully accepted my project proposal. Great :D Indeed I will discuss the effects of the microwave frequencies to be used on living creatures, such as birds, animals, and humans. Any other thoughts?

Hello, I'm doing a project on SBSP and we have a few months to complete it, and in my written report I will be going over NASA's data they collected from their attempts. Calculating efficiencies and otheer variables between different stages of transmission, e.g. first from the sun radi to PV...

BUMP anyone thought of anything.

Hello, I need some ideas for my MSc thesis. I am wanting it to be related to solar PV with the use of materials incorporating quantum mechanics. My first idea was to use quantum dots to improve solar cell efficiency, from the papers I have read there are numerous ways to achieve this, but...