GHTC2015

ghtc2015.pdf

ghtc2015.tex Latex file (will not "compile" without drawings, not included)

fra0.c Used to compute SSPS antenna sizes

Woulda Shoulda Coulda

The deadline for this draft was June 3 midnight. The next morning, I'm already thinking about what I could have included.

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It is an accident of history that computers are programmed with text; Inca quipu, Mayan and old world weaving, and Jacquard machine-woven brocades were designed and coded visually and tactually. The read-only memory for the Apollo Guidance Computer was literally a rope of wires hand-woven through magnetic cores[A]. Programs may be created, compiled, and evaluated with other sensibilities; ...

[A] E. Hall, Journey to the Moon: The History of the Apollo Guidance Computer, Reston VA, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1996.

Ulises refs

• http://ghrc-usa.org/Publications/factsheet_education.pdf

  • - education initiatives in Guatemala (including subsidies for keeping kids vaccinated and in school)
  • - uniforms and fees can suck up a lot of the money

• http://fecnm.org/content/cooperative-history

  • - electric power cooperatives (new mexico)

• http://tessant.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/terawatt-year.png

  • - visual chart for energy in terawatt years, with exaggerations
  • - the solar circle is the entire world land surface covered with solar cells, which would rapidly kill the planet
    • - this assumes 100% collection, conversion, storage, and transmission efficiencies. 10% might be possible.

    • - when terrestrial solar advocates bring numbers, bring a calculator

  • - the uranium bubble is way too small, presumably very inefficient use of only known high grade ores
    • -. with closed cycle integral fast reactors and complete fuel burnup, very low grade ores can be used, almost no waste
    • - there are 5e13 metric tons of uranium and 2.3e14 metric tons of thorium in the earth's crust

    • - at 5E16 J/T, 1TWy=3.16e19J, 632T/1TWy, that is 450e9 TWy, a mere factor of a billion larger than 90 to 300 TWy

  • - The 6e8 TW passing the earth closer than the moon is 26,000 times larger than the "SOLAR" circle shown on the screen
  • - The 3.8E14 TW emitted by the sun is 16.5 billions times larger
    • - The 2.3e4 TW circle is 500 pixels wide, so 6e8 TW is 80,000 pixels wide, and 3.8e14 TW is 640 million pixels wide.

    • - Properly done, space collected energy used in space does not rob the biosphere or add heat to the earth

• http://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/iceland-bets-future-on-large-data-center-development/74300.fullarticle

  • this is very interesting, complementary to server sky - Iceland feeds data from the north!

Can we use bit.ly? How about ie.ee?

It would be great if the URLs in the references were shorter. I would like to use bit.ly or tiny.cc or other service - but I don't want the references to die if the shortened url service does.

The IEEE should offer a shortened url service - perhaps they can negotiate with the Estonian engineering company that owns it to get ie.ee and offer http://ie.ee/<number> shortened URLs, with 9 digit numbers reserved for past and future ieee xplore articles, 9+3 digit numbers assigned to references per paper, and 8+4 digit numbers self-assignable by ieee members (a nice perk that costs almost nothing).

Hence, my 2013 IEEE Sustech paper would be http://ie.ee/006617309, reference 6 could be http://ie.ee/006617309-006, and the URL for my personal favorite online joke site could be http://ie.ee/01221480-0577

Perhaps the ieee can even get its own top level domain, .ieee . We are bigger than 30 small countries with seats at the UN.