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Actually, the technology to send microwaves from space to a remote location to generate power has been around for decades. You could have a receiver on a remote island and power a house and property if it existed. The problem with this approach is it needs an unobstructed path to work, and the potential danger if someone blocked the microwaves. 
 

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/2398532/us-navy-tests-solar-satellite-beam-power-earth-space/

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5 minutes ago, Nevada Convert said:

Actually, the technology to send microwaves from space to a remote location to generate power has been around for decades. You could have a receiver on a remote island and power a house and property if it existed. The problem with this approach is it needs an unobstructed path to work, and the potential danger if someone blocked the microwaves. 
 

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/2398532/us-navy-tests-solar-satellite-beam-power-earth-space/

 I read about this just recently. Very cool.

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8 hours ago, Nevada Convert said:

Actually, the technology to send microwaves from space to a remote location to generate power has been around for decades. You could have a receiver on a remote island and power a house and property if it existed. The problem with this approach is it needs an unobstructed path to work, and the potential danger if someone blocked the microwaves. 
 

https://www.the-sun.com/lifestyle/tech/2398532/us-navy-tests-solar-satellite-beam-power-earth-space/

What would happen if someone blocked the microwave. 

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I thought this subtext was pretty interesting.

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Rods from God

  • A strange but utterly terrifying weapon has been dubbed "rods from the God" and is based on the concept of creating man-made meteorites that can be guided towards the enemy.
  • Instead of using rocks rods the size of telephone poles are deployed.
  • These would be made out of tungsten — a rare metal that can stand the intense heat generated by entering Earth's atmosphere.
  • One satellite fires the rods towards the Earth's atmosphere while the other steers them to a target on the ground.
  • Reaching speeds of 7000mph they hit the ground with the force of a small nuclear weapon — but crucially creating no radiation fall out.
  • As bizarre as it sounds, a US Congressional report recently revealed the military has been pushing ahead with the kinetic space weapons.

Molten metal cannons

  • This intriguing idea is being developed by the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
  • It is called the Magneto Hydrodynamic Explosive Munition or MAHEM.
  • This game changing rail-gun can fire a jet of molten metal, hurled through space at several hundred miles per second by the most powerful electromagnets ever built.
  • The molten metal can then morph into an aerodynamic slug during flight and pierce through another spacecraft or satellite and a munition explodes inside.

 

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2 hours ago, bsu_alum9 said:

I thought this subtext was pretty interesting.

 

Where are they going to put the satellites? geosynchronous orbit is 27,000 miles away; at 7000 mph that's a 4 hour wait time. At 100 miles/second that's about a 5 minute wait time - but that is also about 50 times faster than we've been able to develop yet. If you are as accurate as a battleship round then you're going to constantly miss your target, by miles in some cases.

Furthermore, the atmosphere is going to slow down KEWs. Some articles I've read quote them as slowing down enough to have approximately the same kinetic energy as an equivalent mass of TNT. Which... why not just use a bomb then?

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33 minutes ago, happycamper said:

Where are they going to put the satellites? geosynchronous orbit is 27,000 miles away; at 7000 mph that's a 4 hour wait time. At 100 miles/second that's about a 5 minute wait time - but that is also about 50 times faster than we've been able to develop yet. If you are as accurate as a battleship round then you're going to constantly miss your target, by miles in some cases.

Furthermore, the atmosphere is going to slow down KEWs. Some articles I've read quote them as slowing down enough to have approximately the same kinetic energy as an equivalent mass of TNT. Which... why not just use a bomb then?

What makes you think they'll be aiming at Earth? WW3 is gonna be on the moon

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2 minutes ago, misplacedcowboy said:

What makes you think they'll be aiming at Earth? WW3 is gonna be on the moon

wouldn't that be LW1?

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3 hours ago, happycamper said:

Where are they going to put the satellites? geosynchronous orbit is 27,000 miles away; at 7000 mph that's a 4 hour wait time. At 100 miles/second that's about a 5 minute wait time - but that is also about 50 times faster than we've been able to develop yet. If you are as accurate as a battleship round then you're going to constantly miss your target, by miles in some cases.

Furthermore, the atmosphere is going to slow down KEWs. Some articles I've read quote them as slowing down enough to have approximately the same kinetic energy as an equivalent mass of TNT. Which... why not just use a bomb then?

Because it looks more terrifying coming from space. Plus, it looks cool on from the good-guys side.

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8 hours ago, happycamper said:

Where are they going to put the satellites? geosynchronous orbit is 27,000 miles away; at 7000 mph that's a 4 hour wait time. At 100 miles/second that's about a 5 minute wait time - but that is also about 50 times faster than we've been able to develop yet. If you are as accurate as a battleship round then you're going to constantly miss your target, by miles in some cases.

Furthermore, the atmosphere is going to slow down KEWs. Some articles I've read quote them as slowing down enough to have approximately the same kinetic energy as an equivalent mass of TNT. Which... why not just use a bomb then?

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On 2/26/2021 at 9:27 PM, thelawlorfaithful said:

Lunar War 1 seems like it would be an awesome book series idea.

https://www.baen.com/battle-luna.html

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10 hours ago, thelawlorfaithful said:

Five authors is a red flag.

Eh I just read the samples for most of these books. 

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