DocumentCode
304128
Title
Space power plants and power-consuming industrial systems
Author
Latyshev, L. ; Semashko, N.
Author_Institution
Moscow Aviation Inst., Russia
Volume
1
fYear
1996
fDate
11-16 Aug 1996
Firstpage
52
Abstract
An opportunity to create space power production on the basis of solar, nuclear and fusion energies is analyzed. Industrial (power and science-consuming) objects located on a whole number of space apparatus will form a single complex with its own basic power plant. Power transmission within the complex will be realized with high power density fluxes of microwave radiation over short distances with their receivers at the objects. The necessary correction of the apparatus positions in the complex will be performed with ion and plasma thrusters. The materials present on the Moon, asteroids and on other planets can serve as raw materials for industrial objects. Such an approach will help to improve the ecological state on Earth, to eliminate the necessity in the fast energy consumption growth and to reduce the hazards of global thermal crisis
Keywords
nuclear power; nuclear power stations; photovoltaic power systems; solar cell arrays; solar cells; solar power stations; space power generation; space vehicle power plants; technological forecasting; Moon; asteroids; beamed power transmission; energy consumption; industrial systems; ion thrusters; plasma thrusters; space power plants; space power production; Aerospace industry; Moon; Planets; Plasma applications; Plasma density; Plasma materials processing; Power generation; Power transmission; Production; Raw materials;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, 1996. IECEC 96., Proceedings of the 31st Intersociety
Conference_Location
Washington, DC
ISSN
1089-3547
Print_ISBN
0-7803-3547-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IECEC.1996.552844
Filename
552844
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