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Re: New update to that chart

Success_Machine — 12/31/2001 12:06:20 PM (archived)

I've added a column to the chart for the approximate diameter of sunlight collector needed for a 10,000 person greenhouse with 1306 hectares of farmland.

Copy & paste the url since nothing else seems to work:

I think we will probably be using sunlight to grow food as long as we stay within our solar system. For a colony orbiting Pluto a solar concentrator 68.8 km wide would be needed, which considering the inherent challenges of the greenhouse itself would probably be a trivial problem. Besides I've read about ideas for solar sails used for propulsion that are much larger than these mirrors.

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• Using Sunlight to Grow Food in Space - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 11:36:26 AM
  • R.A.D.I.A.T.I.O.N. - E.P.Grondine - 1/1/2002 9:37:22 AM
    • Re: R.A.D.I.A.T.I.O.N. - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 10:29:14 AM
      • Re: Picture this... - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 11:37:00 AM
        • Re: To mass produce these panels... - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 11:47:30 AM
          • That does get around the radiation problem! - E.P. Grondine - 1/1/2002 10:01:02 AM
  • Re: Using Sunlight to Grow Food in Space - gbaikie - 12/31/2001 2:01:08 PM
    • Re: New update to that chart - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 12:06:20 PM
    • Re: A couple months back I did a serious bit of number crunching - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 9:25:14 AM
      • Re: A couple months back I did a serious bit of number crunching - gbaikie - 1/1/2002 8:16:17 PM
        • Re: A couple months back I did a serious bit of number crunching - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 10:06:05 AM
          • Re: A couple months back I did a serious bit of number crunching - gbaikie - 1/1/2002 11:59:44 AM
            • Re: A very confusing subject - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 11:10:31 AM
              • Re: A very confusing subject - gbaikie - 1/1/2002 6:02:22 PM
                • Re: Seasonal Solar Irradiance for the State of Iowa - Success_Machine - 1/1/2002 7:31:30 PM
  • Re: Once again - trying to get this to work - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 12:14:56 PM
    • Re: Once again - trying to get this to work - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 12:15:46 PM
      • Re: Once again - trying to get this to work - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 12:16:16 PM
        • Re: I give up n/t - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 12:16:50 PM
          • Re: maybe..... - Raoul - 12/31/2001 4:04:43 PM
  • Re: Sunlight Collector for Pluto Orbit Greenhouse - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 11:57:36 AM
  • Re: Here's the link for the image - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 11:40:09 AM
    • Re: Or if that doesn't work, copy and paste the url - Success_Machine - 12/31/2001 11:44:16 AM