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"Clean Tech: What technology are you, your lab or your workplace developing that will improve how we generate or use energy?"
How ‘could’ we reduce our carbon footprint? Things like the ‘Bloom Box’.
Place a geostationary microwave station in orbit and broadcast to a set of Bloom Boxes placed around the countryside. If one location is clouded over, broadcast to another location. These microwaves could also power a spacecraft (space elevator).
Everything could be solar powered. Spacecraft could be launched from airports such as Chicago’s O Hare. Such stations could be set up on our Moon/Mars/beyond…..This system could be tested on the ISS. Use Ion engines on the spacecraft.
Note: Look for Bloom Box on the web. The BBs are chemicaly treated sand.
The BBs can be used in homes as they come in all sizes.
Google is testing the system at its headquarters (as shown on a recent ’60 Minutes’ episode).
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On October 29th, 2010 at 5:45 pm John Said:
Really expensive and inefficient way to convert sunlight to electricity. Just use solar panels directly into storage batteries, done.
On April 8th, 2011 at 7:08 pm Matt Said:
To John:
So I guess you have had a breakthrough in batteries then? Seems to me that your solution would cost more and be less sustainable than the bloom box… batteries are inefficient and expensive themselves. If this was viable on a large scale people would have been doing it for decades now.
On February 19th, 2012 at 4:15 pm Harold Said:
Recive power broadcast from space from a geo-syncronus satelite converting solar to microwaves. Rooftop dishes recieve the MWs, convert them to heat,
the heat goes to a home generator (boiler) which turns a small turbine to create DC electricity which is converted to AC electricity to power everything in the home and charge the car. The ISS can be used to run tests for such a system (totaly free power) after setup of ground stations (roof top receavers).
Again, use the Bloom system to boost power.
H.