New LaserMotive Website Is Live
Written by Tom Nugent on Thursday, April 29th, 2010
As you can see, the LaserMotive website is sporting a brand new look. The new design reflects our business focus now that we’ve won the 2009 Power Beaming competition and brought on some full-time staff. The design will be undergoing some tweaks over the next few days, so check back next week (when we will also have more news)!
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Congratulations.
Professor Harold Sabbagh (my favorite teacher at Purdue in the 50′s (a couple years before the first LASER was demonstrated) proposed a wireless energy transmission scheme based on using solid-state diodes to capture the energy of a focused beam of RF energy. The primary obstacles: material costs, system inefficiencies – particularly pathway obstructions such as dust, water vapor, birds, etc., limited component lifetimes, and unpredictable regulatory obstacles.
Since you’re already considering at least one LTA application, you might want to add http://www.naval-airships.org to your rolodex.
Aerostats, airships, and balloons provide two unique advantages compared to the Space elevator and other aircraft: They provide large targets capable of supporting powerful receiver arrays; They can productively employ (and rapidly dissipate) the heat produced at the receiver interface.
UPSHIP,
Albert H. Robbins
CDR USNR(Retired)
Indianapolis, IN 46226
p.s. If the pointing mechanism becomes sufficiently agile you might be able to discourage large birds from frequenting airports.