StarTram The New Race to Space James Powell George Maise Charles Pellegrino 9781492135364 Books
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StarTram, a new way to launch people and payloads into space at much lower cost than now possible, will soon radically change the world. How will the world change? Will it be a bright future or a dark future for humanity? We don’t know—nobody knows. The outcome will depend on our leaders and how we use this new technology. If the nations of the world cooperate, our future will be very bright clean, low cost power beamed from space satellites to Earth, protection against global warming and threats from asteroids and comets, the mining of near-earth asteroids, real exploration of the Solar System and interstellar space, colonies on the Moon and Mars, space tourism, the discovery of extraterrestrial life forms, mining Helium-3 from the atmosphere of Uranus for return to Earth to fuel fusion reactors, and many other tremendous benefits.
StarTram The New Race to Space James Powell George Maise Charles Pellegrino 9781492135364 Books
As one of the founding participants 20 years ago of what was known as the Millennial Project—a group of idealistic “young” advocates of practical space flight and colonization led by an imaginative folk hero named Marshall Savage (who wrote the book of the same name)—I am thrilled to see this watershed book part the clouds. StarTram is an umbrella proper name for specific magnetic levitation (maglev) systems in development for convenient and inexpensive launch of freight and persons into earth orbit. Maglev launch to space was anticipated in the Millennial Project (and by others), but no one had “worked out the details.”The authors of the book StarTram have done so. Their credentials are a perfect blend of establishment space scientist, propulsion engineer, all the other kinds of scientist and engineer, inventor, and literary visionary storyteller… with a hearty dash of childlike joy and wonder. Their passion for breaking the chains that bind us to the Third Planet shines through on every page, surpassed only by the transcendent logic of their argument that the time is now and the technology is manifest.
Maglev is the only reasonable method for “getting out there” into the Solar System to solve imminent problems for Earthlings: e.g. energy, environment, resources, and to deter foreign objects addressed to our cosmic zip code. Not to mention to exploring and inhabiting the Moon and Mars, or just having some low-g, Barbarella-like FUN in low-earth-orbiting weekend getaway pads.
StarTram is a epochal modern book of human liberation—equivalent to Renaissance scientists explaining how to set sail for the New World. Back then, if you’ll recall, not everyone in the feudalist Old World was overjoyed to see their serfs given clear directions to alternative, oligarchy-free real estate.
Today really isn’t much different: over the centuries the Medieval ownership class pretty much figured out how to climb back in the global saddle. The last thing the Syndicate, the Cartel, THEY—call it what you will—wants is millions and billions of productive people working together in freedom for an unparalleled future in the stars of health and wealth who don’t need THEM… their wars, their debt, their suffocating economics, their prisons, or their policemen pepper-spraying grandma.
So there’ll be some pushback by the Power vs. StarTram, no doubt. But how does one hold back the tide? A quick mention of two other major assets of the StarTram book: a) discussion of nearer-term alternative prospects depending on who gets their ‘stuff’ into earth orbit first and b) considering, down the road when humans can presumably announce to the Galaxy, “Hey, we’re here!” whether that is such a good idea.
Regarding item a), dominance of earth orbit will give the dominator absolute power over Earth with cheap, easy-to-target, devastating weapons; how WE handle that issue will decide whether WE make the hurdle into peaceful use of space or become a marooned, dying planet, As for b), all I can say is the authors pose brilliant, tantalizing reasons to cosmically lay low. What do YOU think?
A thousand stars.
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StarTram The New Race to Space James Powell George Maise Charles Pellegrino 9781492135364 Books Reviews
This is a very important book. StarTram 1 (electromagnetic launch from a mountain at 20 Gs, for cargo only) is the best near-term feasible solution to global warming I've heard. $20/pound space launch makes zero-carbon Space Solar Power (SSP) feasible anywhere on Earth, and the authors' superconductive cable "magnetic inflation" designs for SSP satellites are claimed to produce double the kW/pound of previous designs. One StarTram1 could launch 500 GW of generator capacity in 10 years; at $20B/StarTram, the economics guarantee there will be more and more of them. The third world will build "rectenna" receiver fields for GW of power instead of coal or nuclear power plants; even existing plants in the US and Europe will be priced out of the market and shut down a big win-win for development AND the planet. Even in the worst case, if the world is already past the tipping point towards runaway warming from releasing permafrost/ocean methane, the L1 solution they describe should allow effective remediation with no environmental disruption. (For this and other jobs we'd probably add lunar/asteroid mining and construction in space he doesn't mention, but much easier to do all that with cheap launch from Earth.)
StarTram 2 (levitating the launch tube 20 miles with superconductive magnetic repulsion) is wild but feasible physics. This will make space tourism and eventual space settlement really feasible. Basically safer, too -- this "low road to space" will claim far fewer lives than rockets have the SpaceShipTwo pilot is only the latest in a long series of disasters including the whole crew of 2 of 131 total US Space Shuttle flights.
The technical papers in the rest of the book are great if you are interested in space exploration. However, I think the military angle is the other really crucial part, and it merits a lot of discussion. If any country tries to build StarTram1 alone and without scrutiny, it will be nuked. I'm not kidding. StarTram 1 could cheaply lift 10,000 kinetic-kill weapons in a few weeks telephone pole-sized metal "rods from God" that could strike any target on Earth at near-orbital speed, delivering the equivalent of a 400-kiloton nuclear missile at far less cost and with no feasible defense. Any country or alliance that does that will rule the world for centuries -- a realistic "Hunger Games" scenario. I disagree with the authors that the most likely defense would be filling likely orbits with debris. The world was here before, in the MAD (Mutually-Assured Destruction) decades of the Cold War. Unmonitored StarTram puts every nuclear weapon on Earth in "Use it or lose it" mode. Democracies and dictatorships alike may choose to launch their missiles to their targets rather than be enslaved. The "low road to space" may be good, but the LOW (Launch On Warning) road in nuclear deterrence this implies is terrible -- one false alarm away from disaster.
We need to build StarTram 1 now to fix global warming, but it must be controlled so the whole world can believe doesn't threaten them. This means space development needs to be open in a way few human activities before have been. Think how the NSA subverted the world infrastructure of PC computers and be afraid. Think how science and scholarship have been open for hundreds of years, and how free/open-source software and even hardware are open to scrutiny worldwide today, and have some hope. I think StarTram is the most hopeful and challenging development of the past several decades. Pay attention to this book!
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As one of the founding participants 20 years ago of what was known as the Millennial Project—a group of idealistic “young” advocates of practical space flight and colonization led by an imaginative folk hero named Marshall Savage (who wrote the book of the same name)—I am thrilled to see this watershed book part the clouds. StarTram is an umbrella proper name for specific magnetic levitation (maglev) systems in development for convenient and inexpensive launch of freight and persons into earth orbit. Maglev launch to space was anticipated in the Millennial Project (and by others), but no one had “worked out the details.”
The authors of the book StarTram have done so. Their credentials are a perfect blend of establishment space scientist, propulsion engineer, all the other kinds of scientist and engineer, inventor, and literary visionary storyteller… with a hearty dash of childlike joy and wonder. Their passion for breaking the chains that bind us to the Third Planet shines through on every page, surpassed only by the transcendent logic of their argument that the time is now and the technology is manifest.
Maglev is the only reasonable method for “getting out there” into the Solar System to solve imminent problems for Earthlings e.g. energy, environment, resources, and to deter foreign objects addressed to our cosmic zip code. Not to mention to exploring and inhabiting the Moon and Mars, or just having some low-g, Barbarella-like FUN in low-earth-orbiting weekend getaway pads.
StarTram is a epochal modern book of human liberation—equivalent to Renaissance scientists explaining how to set sail for the New World. Back then, if you’ll recall, not everyone in the feudalist Old World was overjoyed to see their serfs given clear directions to alternative, oligarchy-free real estate.
Today really isn’t much different over the centuries the Medieval ownership class pretty much figured out how to climb back in the global saddle. The last thing the Syndicate, the Cartel, THEY—call it what you will—wants is millions and billions of productive people working together in freedom for an unparalleled future in the stars of health and wealth who don’t need THEM… their wars, their debt, their suffocating economics, their prisons, or their policemen pepper-spraying grandma.
So there’ll be some pushback by the Power vs. StarTram, no doubt. But how does one hold back the tide? A quick mention of two other major assets of the StarTram book a) discussion of nearer-term alternative prospects depending on who gets their ‘stuff’ into earth orbit first and b) considering, down the road when humans can presumably announce to the Galaxy, “Hey, we’re here!” whether that is such a good idea.
Regarding item a), dominance of earth orbit will give the dominator absolute power over Earth with cheap, easy-to-target, devastating weapons; how WE handle that issue will decide whether WE make the hurdle into peaceful use of space or become a marooned, dying planet, As for b), all I can say is the authors pose brilliant, tantalizing reasons to cosmically lay low. What do YOU think?
A thousand stars.
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