Ideas: Man, Energy, Space

The gold of the Moon

Space energy and land transports 

by Adriano Autino 

Some energetic requirement for the 21° century. 

To guarantee the energy at low cost needed for:

  • The space technologies development,  

  • The development of the emerging countries.  

  • To develop peace economies in  permanent conflict areas.  

  • To allow the outcasters to enter the market.  

  • To assure a true freedom of individual movement for all the Terrestrials.  

  • To emancipate the civilization from the hydrocarbons draw.  

Some requirement for new terrestrial transport systems.  

  • To increase the freedom of movement and the individual transport means.  

  • To decrease the bureaucracy and the control on the movements of the  citizens.  

  • To rationalize the traffic ways and the transport systems.  

  • To avoid being engaged in the driving for the most part of the travel time.  

  • To improve the safety standards.

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Space and energy  

A free conversation with prof. Tullio Regge, on the topic of the space colonization.

"... the idea to send down energy by means of microwaves could work, but we could never convince the greens that it is innocuous for the environment, they will always say no. I remain opposite to maxiprojects: they only serve to feed tangents, creating bogus economies. If the photovoltaic technology will take foot on Earth, we could then begin with a space pilot system to be gradually increased, but before I want to see the feasibility, the rendering and many other things... " [follows

Gold, gold! 

A fantastic speculation by Giulio Gelibter, some "barren figures", and some literary notes proposed by the Sc. Dir. of TDF, Dr. Marco C. Bernasconi. Where, also, they dreams about extraland enterprising, gold mines, vendors of lunar ground, and about mystery, that since ever surrounds gold, the noblest metal.  [follows] 

Solar Power from Space (SPS) 

Technical Card 

To Dr. Bernasconi (responsible of the researches on the rigidable and inflatable structures for space in Contraves) we asked to clear some not obvious aspects, care to the solar energy collection in the space and transmitted in shape of bundles of microwaves. 

"... The medium per capita consumption of energy in the post-industrial countries, in years '90, is approximately 7 kW. Considering that, with the advent of the SPS, the entire economy would be converted to the electricity, the per capita consumption would come down around 3 kW... The Space Photovoltaic is the only draw that moves the greater part of the thermal burden of the extraction of energy outside of the planet... " 

The greens should reflect on this [ndr].  [follows]