I recently began studying David Criswell’s Lunar Solar Power concept. If I was a conspiracy theory type I would say investigate Elon Musk. About the time Elon decided to go into space instead of into solar power, David was proclaiming he could solve the Earth’s energy problems by beaming microwave energy to Earth from the Moon. My suspicion is that Musk is building a microwave deathstar weapon on the Moon. Think about it, he has tested these rockets and they seem to work fine but how many has he built somewhere in secret and put on ships to launch from the poles? There may be space-x factories on the lunar poles busily building solar energy converters and microwave antennae fields and fabricating the gargantuan constructs necessary to be launched from the Moon and put in geostationary Earth orbit as relay stations. Darth Musk may be building Criswell’s system with a slight improvement- the microwaves can be focused on the Earth in catastrophic concentrations. This guy is the anti-christ; he will be able to conquer any country, even the United States, by using these geostationary microwave transmitters to incinerate any target on the surface of the Earth. The point being that there will be no reason to destroy a nation when you can sell them cheap electricity instead. In this concept, the armed forces of the planet also control the power supplies to the planet through a network of super power battle stations. The trick is building these giant space fortress power relay stations on the Moon and launching them into geostationary Earth orbit. This lunar launch technique would take advantage of beam propulsion and also insert into geostationary orbit using power beamed from the Moon. As soon as the power is available from geostationary orbit then powering a vehicle from the surface to escape velocity becomes practical. These launch vehicles will most likely be in the form of a disc; flying saucers. The Flying Saucer Airlines will finally whisk thousands and then millions of people into the heavens. It would be better if the government would set up this giant power system that will so forever and completely solve the Energy problems of Earth.
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Nice grenade to throw at conspiracy theorists :-) In serious though these geostationary microwave transmitters could be a great idea. An incredible amount of solar power could be harvested on the moon. The concern however I would have with such large scale high power microwave transmitters would not be incinerating targets but driving you insane. You should read up on the effects of microwave radiation on the blood brain barrier -
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0006899377907260
http://www.dana.org/news/features/detail_bw.aspx?id=26938
I was always paranoid about the claim by space solar power advocates that the microwaves are “harmless.” Nothing is harmless.
But we have enough places out in the middle of nowhere (ever been to South Dakota or Nevada- or the gobi?) that sqare miles of recieving field and safety zones of many more sqare miles around them are not big problem.
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