a patented “low earth orbit payload launch system” @ www.freepatentsonline.com/5740985.html uses conventional turbofan engine propulsion (for a “payload cargo bay” version of the x15 rocket plane) using oxygen from the atmosphere to launch from a b52 at high altitude… eliminating “on board” oxygen… and allowing engine “restart” for ordinary airplane flight back to a “home base” runway upon re-entry from leo.

did you ever imagine(?)… three (3) new options to launch (payload… energy beam satellites) without building new rockets:

1.
exchange “energy beam satellites” for “war heads” on solid fuel icbm rockets that can be launched in “the next ten minutes”! for 30 years, these rockets have been “ready and available”.

why spend more money to maintain armed missiles when there are more than enough “ready to fly” icbms for national defense?.

why not get tangible economic “return on investment” instead of “burning money” for these rockets… year after year.

2. a first “space elevator” will cost 15 billion dollars (according to bradley c. edwards).

obama
talks about “infrastructure for the future”, then “borrows and spends” hundreds of billions on “shovel ready” pot hole technology or “entitlement government sector” bureaucracy.

why not develop new space elevator technology to open space to “everyday trade and commerce”! it is money well spent… space elevators will deliver “payload” (ssp satellites) to leo at “ordinary freight” rates!

3.
x plane technology (with a “new” payload bay) is “on the shelf” since the 1970s to provide “manned” launch and maintenance service” for ssp satellites without any new astronomical development cost.

innovation “is” practical application of technology into the daily “business life” of society.

innovation is a question of “return on investment”.

innovation must become “personal” to every ordinary individual citizen.

please comment to facilitate “progress and prosperity”… that is the mandate, opportunity and blessing available developing and deploying energy beam technology

(additionally, there is not enough production capacity available in the
entire world to build enough new nuclear power plants to replace
“fossil fuel” boiler plants, and not enough construction capacity to
replace current nuclear facilities that are already 30 years into
service with 40 year original life time design limits.)

in contrast, all “nuclear” and “fossil fuel” power plant production
facilities simply need new boiler technology to completely eliminate
all “emissions” and all “nuclear” footprint.

it is ordinary conventional construction technology to replace dirty
boiler technology with microwave energy beam (receiving dish) boilers.

it simply amounts to a new steam pipe hooked up to every existing
turbine and generator pouring electricity into every available
distribution grid.

it is especially economical, because production of replacement
turbines, generators and power grid materials will be cheaper after energy beam conversion.

every manufactured replacement inventory
will cost less by decreased cost of energy to manufactre these materials as fossil fuel and nuclear boilers are
replaced!

published information indicates that space solar power satellites being
designed in japan will individually provide power for 500,000 utility
households (each!).

i live in rochester, new york… our local utility is rochester gas and
electric company… the company serves 200,000 households according to
payment clerk when i recently paid my utility bill. metropolitan
rochester has 1 million residents within a 20 mile radius of our
downtown “center city”.

syracuse, new york and buffalo, new york have relatively the same
number of households, population and density. in my mind… only
having a bachelors degree in liberal arts (university of
pittsburgh-english)… i do not think it is unreasonable to recognize
that one “energy beam” satellite designed to serve 500,000 households
could serve either rochester and syracuse, or rochester and at least
2/3s of buffalo ( since it is a little larger than rochester and
syracuse… one satellite can evidently serve 1/2 of western new york
state.

on this basis, researching the federal energy information
administration indicates as of 2007 there are 110 million utility
households across the entire united states. (incidentally, taking a
course communications 141 at monroe community college fall 2009, the
nielsen television rating service surveys 110 million “television
households” across america. i’m not a rocket scientist, but it seems
reasonable that every household that is a “utility household” according
to the government energy information administration just may be a
“television household” measured by nielsen.

when i divide 110,000.000 by 500,000 (using long division with a pencil
the way i was taught before every child had a pocket calculator)… i
get 220… err, 220 satellites could provide electricity for every
utility household across america replacing every fossil fuel boiler and
every atomic energy boiler that simply boil water into high pressure
steam to turn turbines that power generators producing electricity.

energy beam dish boiler technology just happens to immediately be “zero
emissions” and could be completely available across america in ten
years… the same time necessary to build any “new”after energy beam nuclear facility… if every political and environmental road block falls in
line.

i’ll explain how much it will cost to build and launch new satellites,
how much revenue will be generated by a mere $20.00 a month flat rate
for each household!

why incrementally reduce carbon footprint when it is “simply” possible to completely eliminate carbon footprint?

simply understand, expand and harness two simple technologies…the magnifying glass and the prism.

1. look at two “practical applications” of focusing (“concentrating”) light energy with a magnifying glass:

any child with a magnifying glass can ignite fossil fuels (leaves, paper, or tinder for a camp fire).

any child with a magnifying glass can also boil a glass of water into steam.

expand this from child’s play into commercial application… perhaps innovative new technology can harness concentrated light energy to generate “high pressure steam”. it just may be practical to replace (fossil fuel or atomic energy) boiler technology that generates electricity at power plants around the world today!

“carbon footprint” is the result of burning fossil fuel… just breath smoke and fumes from burning leaves, paper and camp fires, or witness “particulate” belching from power plant chimneys… or catch a breath of poisonous gas from
combustion engine exhaust pipes. (additionally, “nuclear footprint”, (the side effect of atomic powered electric generating plants) is perhaps even more lethal… because spent “radioactive” fuel rods dangerously decay for “thousands of years”, while the threat of accidents or terrorism can become instantaneous global catastrophes.)

fossil fuel and atomic energy are simply “dirty”… and (for that reason alone) are effectively “obsolete”.

while it might as well be a “top secret” from the general public, innovative “energy beam” technology is just about available to power boilers generating steam at any terrestrial power station. “concentrating light”, or “energy beam” technology” is a new technology that simply has no carbon footprint, (and additionally, no atomic footprint!).

practical technology to boil water into steam (to turn turbines) to generate electricity is no longer absolutely dependent on fossil fuels or atomic energy.

2. harnessing light energy with a prism. (dispersion)

any child playing with a prism understands “dispersion”… visible light separates into the colors of the rainbow as it passes through the prism. (this is just the opposite of light energy “concentrating” at the focal point as it passes through a magnifying glass!)

these two unique, yet “interchangeable” and “complimentary” characteristics of light energy are already keys to harnessing energy in a multitude of common devices serving the world today.

just as the individual colors of the rainbow are identifiable because each color has its own unique “wave length” and “frequency”, each separate and individual type of energy outside the visible light spectrum has its own unique and individual “wave length” and “frequency”. it is as simple as choosing your favorite radio or television station, or the setting on your microwave oven.

solar energy (visible light waves from the sun), radio waves, television waves, microwaves, x-rays, magnetic resonance imaging, sonar, radar, gamma rays, beta rays… every individual type of energy is simply a variation of “wave length” and “frequency” of energy.

modern technology already uses radio, television and microwave energy for communications across the earth with “dish antennas” to send and receive energy to and from satellites in orbit, and between dish towers for cell telephones.

interestingly, energy from the sun… contains every wave length and frequency of energy available to be harnessed by each “specialized” technology invented and currently available for practical applications in modern society.

it is not science fiction to state that mankind commands 21st century “space age” technology and resources today.

since mankind has access to “space age” technology… rockets, satellites and “dish antenna” for transmission of energy from place to place… it is possible to completely eliminate fossil fuel (and even atomic energy) to generate steam to turn turbines at electric power plants.

it is simply time to replace “obsolete boilers” generating electricity at power plants around the world today.

instead of boiling water with fossil or atomic energy, it is simply time to deploy in geostationary orbits new “energy beam” satellites at leo (low earth orbit) to:

1. “collect” solar energy 24/7.
2. “convert” solar energy into “microwave” energy.
3. using “dish technology”… “beam” microwave energy (from new “collecting and conversion” satellites) to new power plant “receiving dish” boilers to generate steam.

simply replace every fossil fuel and atomic energy boiler with a new microwave dish “energy beam” boiler… immediately eliminating power plant carbon (and atomic energy) footprint.

in fact, japan plans to test launch the first “energy beam” satellite technology in 2013 for satellites that will be designed to power 500,000 households per satellite. (this is not science fiction or idle speculation… test launch is only three years away.)

there are 110 million “electric utility” households across america… divide by 500,000 households per satellite:: 220 “energy beam” satellites could convert all fossil fuel and nuclear power plants across america… perhaps in only 6 to 8 years.

it does not take harry potter to wave his magic wand to eliminate global “carbon footprint”… a decade of transition to “energy beam” power plant technology can “really” get the job done.

“dare to be naive.” buckminster fuller