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Note July 12, 2015 - the citations in the June 3 version of the paper were poorly formatted, and two links have changes since posting the above. I have repaired most of the citation format errors, and will post a new version (along with the June 3 version) on Monday July 13. I still have not received the reviews expected on June 25.
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  .- education initiatives in Guatemala (including subsidies for keeping kids vaccinated and in school)
  .- uniforms and fees can suck up a lot of the money
  .- Education initiatives in Guatemala (including subsidies for keeping kids vaccinated and in school)
  .- Uniforms and fees can suck up a lot of the money, flowing back out to Guatemala City and the west.
 * 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!
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  .- electric power cooperatives (new mexico)   .- 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.
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  .- 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
   .- that is with
100% collection, conversion, storage, and transmission efficiencies
   .- when terrestrial solar advocates bring numbers, [[ http://server-sky.com/SolarEarth | 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
   .- a
t 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
  .- Visual chart for energy in terawatt years, with '''exaggerations'''.
  .- The solar circle is the entire world land surface co
vered 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, [[ http://server-sky.com/SolarEarth | bring a calculator]],
  .- The uranium bubble is way too small, presumably very inefficient use of existing refined uranium.
   -. With closed cycle integral fast reactors and complete fuel burnup, very l
ow 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 5 to 1.5 '''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.
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   .- 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!
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=== 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.
   .- Properly done, space collected energy '''used in space''' does not rob the biosphere or add heat to the earth.
  .- We must be very very careful - some people believe strongly in industrial-scale terrestrial solar, and resist actual analysis and empirical evidence with slanderous anger.
 

GHTC2015

ghtc2015.pdf

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

Note July 12, 2015 - the citations in the June 3 version of the paper were poorly formatted, and two links have changes since posting the above. I have repaired most of the citation format errors, and will post a new version (along with the June 3 version) on Monday July 13. I still have not received the reviews expected on June 25.

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. :-)


Page 7 top left:

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, flowing back out to Guatemala City and the west.
  • 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 existing refined uranium.
      • -. 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 5 to 1.5 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.

    • - We must be very very careful - some people believe strongly in industrial-scale terrestrial solar, and resist actual analysis and empirical evidence with slanderous anger.

GHTC2015 (last edited 2015-07-13 06:17:50 by KeithLofstrom)