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://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!

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

  • - Electric power cooperatives (new mexico). Cooperatives require functional local democracy and common interests.
  • - This might work well in rural Guatemala municipios. Guatemala City is too far away to understand local needs.

• 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

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.