Creating A Better Tomorrow Today!
Who Is American Industrial Consultants
We are Modeled from DODs Industrial Modernization Incentive
Program (IMIP, Mantech)
We are a consortium:
Taking R & D out of the Labs and into Production for the Good & Right of Man Kind and Product Improvement
The Goal
YES, A World without oil dependency
Inhabited until 2024 then 4 year end of Life Replace with New very Useful Space Solar Power Systems
Presentation Dates
So. California (Feb 24-28):
Still need to add: JPL, SpaceX
Mon 2/24
Zodiac Aero
Tue 2/25
Aero/Def
Wed 2/26
Northrop UAV *San Diego
Thu 2/27
Boeing Seal Bch
Fri 2/28
Boeing LB
Eaton/Parker
Aero/Def
San Diego Gen Atomics??
Boeing HB
???
Space Solar Power System
Distributed Aperture Power Collection System
Small, local power reception stations
Adaptive Beam Forming
Distributed aperture phased array in GEO
(Multiple, narrow beams transmit nearly all power collected)
Dr. D. C. Hyland Professor Texas A&M University 3141 TAMU 719B, H.R. Bright College Station Texas. 77843 Mobile: 979 255-7769 Email: [email protected]
Multiple smaller satellites, not a few gigantic spacecraft. Improved robustness.
Much smaller rectennas, serving local areas. Reduced ground-based power transport, reduced ground footprint
Reduced initial investment to obtain an operational system.
Space Solar Energy Systems
Solar Energy Satellite(s)
Solar Satellite
Beam Transmit Science Ground Collector System
Weather Control
Beam Full Transmit System Integration
Ground Collector
Turnkey Integration
Database & Software
Database & Software Development
Full Turnkey System Integration Weather Control System
6/10/2013
Shawn Paul Boike Proprietary
American Industrial Co. Proprietary
R & D Studies Required
Each System Requires many Detailed Studies
1.
2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
Solar Energy Satellite(s) Beam Transmit Science
Ground Collector System Database & Software Development Full Turnkey System Integration Weather Control System
Best Solar Satellites
Modular, Expandable, Controllable, etc. Laser vs. EB vs. EM microwave
Optimal Beam/Energy Transmission
Selectable Ground Base Collection & Energy Storage System Performance Database & Software A Full Development & Integration Plan The Satellites to be planned & retrofitted with Beam Control; Earths Weather Control System
Solar/Energy Absorption
Solar Energy Satellite(s)
Studies:
1.
2.
3. 4.
Best Solar Absorption/Conversion Modular, Expandable, Controllable & Shape Changing/Morphing
1. SolutionCell Design optimization
Best PhotoVoltaic Conversion
Alta Devices reports NREL verification of 23.5% efficiency for counterintuitive solar panel http://www.nrel.gov/pv/ Boeings Spectralabs: my Friend Nuran D. was @ Spectra (GaAs)
Energy Beam Transmission
Optimal Beam/Energy Transmission Detailed Studies: 1. Optimal Beam/Energy Transmission
1.
2. 3.
Laser (http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2010/p h240/ma1/) Electron Beam EM (microwave)
Beam Transmit Science
2. Expandable 3. Controllable
Ground Collection System
Ground Collector System
Studies:
1. 2. 3.
4. 5.
Sizing per consumed kWh/population Storage Systems Types (Existing, piggyback or new) Modular & Expandable increased consumption & Population Spread & Placement Safety Improvements & Improved techniques over existing grid. 1. Less Susceptible to Nuclear or EMP
(Hardening Requires a 60 DB shrouding/insulation)
Software & Dbase Required
Database & Software Development
Requirements:
Orbital conditions for direct Delivery & Timing
How Many Satellites Required
Earth Conditions Locations for Allies being fed
Weather Condition & Effects
Schedule Deliveries & Grids
Every Sub System to be developed
Turnkey Integration Required
Full Turnkey System Integration
Requirements:
Space Delivery vs. Requirements
Design & Build How Many Satellites Required
Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Honeywell, Raytheon, BAE, B/E, etc
Suppliers to Design & Build
Schedule Deliveries & Grids Every Sub System to be developed
Turnkey Integration Required
Weather Control System
Requirements:
Mirror Morphing System Requirements
How Many Satellites Required Optimal Orbital Positions Design Options & Build Schedules Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, Honeywell, Raytheon, BAE, B/E, etc
Suppliers to Design & Build
Schedule Deliveries & Grids Every Sub System to be developed
Next Steps
Initial Trade Study & Cost Variations: Which Orbit Trade-Off:
LEO GEO
Beam Transmission Trade-Off:
Microwave: Transparency of Atmosphere
Laser Beam Transmission Study
Find a Better way to Web Conference Trello vs. Gmail vs. gotomeeting, etc
Development Cycle Diagram
DRAFT-REF Each Phase Required to Get There:
SSP Installs Stage5 Systems & Database Stage1R&D
SSP Des/Eng Stage2
Space Solar Power Evolution
SSP Test/Eval Stage4
SSP Mfg/QA Stage3
American Industrial Co. Proprietary
Energy Costs Europe:
http://timothyhughes.sharedby.co/share/Ekz8Z3
Funding
Funding: NSF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN2o_0m1Jk8&feature=colike
http://www.ev-info.com/en/electric-boats-manufacturers.html
http://blog.cleantech.com/tag/nrel/
Recently SunPower announced it broke the record for solar cell efficiency for a large area silicon wafers. NREL certified the SunPower cell at 24.2%. I anxiously pulled up one of my favorite solargeek charts, NRELs Best Research -Cell Efficiencies to plot SunPowers accomplishment. The key term in the title of this chart is Research -Cell. By definition a research cell is typically a one off and small (on the order of 1cm2). Researchers at University of South Wales still hold the record for single crystal silicon cells (aka monocrystalline) at 24.7%. SunPowers announced a full-scale solar cell that is a certified record holder for large area silicon wafers. SunPower, you overcame one challenge, making a large cell. This is impressive. I look forward to removing almost from my po st when you announce a new product line manufactured at scale with a 24+% efficiency OR you announce a research 24.8+% research cell.
http://en.openei.org/apps/TCDB/
SPS-ALPHA: The First Practical Solar Power Satellite via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oct/stp/niac/mankins_sps_alpha.html#
Gold Backed China's Yuan Set To Become Global Reserve Currency?
American Industrial Co.
The Co2 BS
B.S.
DoD Weighs Major COCOM Realignment
Propulsion lasers after 5 hrs
970 s, 11 deg sweep over 7743 km. 3286 m/s velocity gain
GEO
320km perigee
236 s, 1630 m/s ~20 km
Hohmann transfer orbit 5 hr
Looking down over the North Pole, Earth not to scale.
Beamed Energy and $100/kg to GEO
On why cheap space transportation gives low cost energy and how power in space gives low cost transport and how to get started Keith Henson (L5 Society)
In four part harmony
Part 1 Economics and transport technical Part 2 Building a seed propulsion laser Part 3 Completing the seed laser Part 4 Business and political case
Part 1
Power sats Economic analysis to undercut coal Lift cost limit $100 for 5 kg/kW Beamed energy & analysis 10 km air drop Laser progress
OVERALL CONFIGURATION OF GEOSYNCHRONOUS SPS (FROM DOE STUDIES)
SPACEBORNE ARRAY
RECTENNA ON EARTH
Simple analysis
10 year return on capital, 80,000 hours $1600/kW can be paid back at 2 cents per kWh $200/kW rectenna, $900/kW parts and labor ($450 before transmission lost), $500/kW for transport to GEO At 5 kg/kW requires $100/kg or less to GEO
Cant be done with chemical fuel
Current $20,000/kg to GEO SpaceX $4,000/kg $1,000/kg 20t/1400t, 1.4% payload Skylon ~$1000/kg $500/kg 7t/300t, 2.3% payload
Combine with:
Hydrogen combustion to 25 km, & Mach 5.5 Laser heated hydrogen above that point (laser beamed down from GEO)
Two GW of laser (1.8 GW actually) Performance analysis, 54 t to LEO Vehicle 24 t, (20% structure) plus 30 t second stage to LEO 2/3rd of second stage to GEO (20 t)
105 kW CW
Cost breakdown
Vehicle amortization $10/kg Hydrogen $6/kg Laser $50 B (written off in 5 years) $10 B/0.5 B kg is $20/kg $36/kg, well under the $100/kg number
Why Airdrop at 10 km
Huge Landing gear reduction Max landing is 54 tons, 120 t less 76 tons of LH2 dumped in an abort.
Part 2, Getting started (Building a seed laser)
scale, 500 MW @ 10 kg/kW 5000 tons, Falcon Heavy @ 20 t per flight 250 flights at 0.1 B/flight, $25 B $5 B laser at $10/W 500 days at a launch every other day
Part 3, completing 2 GW
$15 B laser/power sat parts, 15,000 tons 60 scale vehicles, 5 tons to GEO 20 flights per day, 150 days, 2 years total Transport cost @ $100/kg $1.5 B Total cost $50-100 B Income @ $100/kg * 500,000 t $50 B/yr Payback from gross income ~2 years.
Falcons can't build power sats but they can build a very expensive laser?
2 GW electric power at 2 cent per kWh is worth $320 M/yr 2 GW of laser propulsion is worth $50 B/yr >100 times as much
Part 4 This makes a business case
It closes the business case for making 2 cent per kWh power and we know there is plenty of market at that price (TWs) It solves energy, energy security and carbon problems (carbon neutral synthetic fuel for a dollar a gallon) Even at two cents per kWh it makes huge profits
BUTIt is too big to do without major government backing
And oil, coal and gas industries will lobby against a real solution. So why should the government consider it?
It costs perhaps 10% of what a war with Iran would cost
SDI with the USSR or Russia was/is a losing business. It will be decades before Iran could overwhelm a multi GW propulsion laser and by that time the commercial demand for laser propulsion should be in the tens of GW Cheap power from space removes any legitimate reason to sort out uranium atoms
Google henson oil drum for a for a slightly out of datewhite paper on this topic
Part 1 months ago Part 2 and 3 a few weeks ago Part 4 last week This is unlikely to be the final evolution of the idea.
Stuff to do
Write arguments that oil, coal and gas industries will not be hurt Synthetic oil for the oil companies and they can sell gasoline for the next century Using coal for a while making synthetic oil Making hydrogen out of an awful lot of gas (230 tons an hour, shipload a week)
Weather opened by heat
Global Crop Production Increases Threefold Over The Past 50 Years http://bit.ly/14mN5MZ