Welcome my friends on Steemit. Today I continue the talk about the planet Earth, Space, and their resources. I hope you enjoy this piece and it tickles your brain to think of relevant posts you could make on the topic. This topic is very much something people should think about as the desire and ability to enter space becomes feasible. The suggested topic is we solve the energy problem first before we use Earth's Resources up doing the wrong things first.

Crater 302 on the surface of the Moon:

Everything we shoot off into space is gone from the Earth. Valuable resources are gone and will never come back until we can mine and retrieve materials from asteroids safely. Ways to conserve Earth's resources during the exploration and commercialization of space are a must do.

Space and Energy

Unlike the Earth or its atmosphere, space is largely empty but it does contain one thing close by - energy.

Like the vacuum in incandescent light bulbs energy flows through space from stars like our Sun like from the filament inside the bulb. Different energies are known to shoot through space and stars may not be the only source of energy. For example, there are gravitational and magnetic fields in space as well which could be used as sources of energy.

Solar Energy

Location, Location, Location is the key in real estate purchases and investment. Likewise, the closer something is to the sun, the more solar energy a device can receive, convert into usable energy, and transmit.

Think of how powerful a heat pump on Mercury would be. The orbit of Mercury is very elliptical and ranges. When Mercury is closest to the sun, it is only 29 million miles (47 million km), but at its farthest, the distance to Mercury is 43 million miles (70 million km). Earth in comparison has an average distance of 92,955,820 miles (149,597,890 km) from the sun.

Mercury has a exosphere but not an atmosphere. The exosphere does not retain heat. It is comprised of particles blasted from the surface of the planet by the Sun. Mercury reaches 840 degrees Fahrenheit in the day and -275 degrees Fahrenheit at night. Devices like thermocouples would make plenty of electricity on Mercury.

The solar energy Mercury receives is cubed compared to the energy the earth receives.

Solar Charging of Nuclear Fuel

It would be possible, or should be possible to shoot nuclear material around the Sun that is spent. When the material returns, the nuclear fuel will be recharged. Have you heard of depleted Uranium? If we shoot a big projectile of depleted Uranium at a high enough velocity around the Sun and close enough, it will not be depleted Uranium by the time it comes back. Naturally, the Uranium must be in sizes much smaller than the amount of critical mass which is about 38 pounds. Once it reaches critical mass, Uranium detonates.

H.A.L.P.

A device like the H.A.L.P. could be used as a launch and landing platform. I posted it in this article and it can aid in the reduction of Earth's resources by an extremely large amount:
High Altitude Launch (Landing ) Platform - H.A.L.P.

Other ideas include launching from piggy back on jet airplanes. Special airplanes are being built to reduce the cost of fuel, the use of fuel, and a higher altitude launch.

100 Mile High Tower

A physicist proposed that a tower be built out of nano-carbons and that it is so high that the top of the tower is in outer space. At first, I liked this idea. I am a big fan of nano carbon structures. The tower would contain an elevator that lifted the spacecraft up and brought the craft down. If it ever falls over, it could be a very horrible incident. There is possibility it might affect the rotation of the Earth over time.

Sky Hook

This one is the construction worker's dream. Have you ever been on a construction site and you wanted to lift something that was impossible because there was no place to safely put a crane? This idea is based on something @everittdmickey posted on one of posts. It was a device that attached to a spaceship with a long arm. The device then rotated and then spun the spaceship up to a higher orbit. It was already in space.

We can use cosmic radiation as power. We have the technology to make a sky hook. The skyhook has a carbon nanotube cable which reels all the way down to the ground. The cable is attached to the spacecraft and reeled back up. The spacecraft is now in space.

The whole process could be made easier. The spacecraft could be loaded onto a H.A.L.P. or lifted up to the top of a much shorter tower. From there, the cable is attached and spaceships are lifted up into space and lowered down from space.

Again, this is extremely possible and reduces the use of the Earth's resources by huge amounts. Spacecraft can be larger. Spacecraft can carry larger payloads and safety is increased greatly.

It was last year when a People's Republic of China CZ-7 Missile Booster body popped out of outer space over my house. The peace and quiet of nature was rumbled for several minutes by something that sounded like a popping train wreck. There was a huge fireball as it moved from east to west. It also may have landed in a California Forest and started a forest fire. That is to say a piece of it may have started the fire as it disintegrated as it approached the ground.

Safety incidents like this would be reduced and completely ended by combining Sky Hook and the H.A.L.P... As you can tell, I like the H.A.L.P. idea best. It should be easier to use with a sky hook.

This is the Earth first viewed from the Moon:

We do not want our Earth to end up looking like the Moon. One of the ways this could happen is if we shoot all of the resources of Earth off into space.

By using technology to gather or collect energy in space we use less of the Earth's resources. We receive back more energy than we have to put out. And of the things we can do in space, this is the easiest. This is the closest. Generating energy for the Earth in space should be our first step toward a better world.

Conclusion:

The collection and use of the energy in space should be our first step, our first priority. After we master the gathering or collection of space energy, it will be much easier and less costly to move onto other things such as mining, colonization, vacationing, and habitation. This is a topic we must seriously engage, debate, and ensure for the continued success of life on Earth.

First in Series:
Earth Resources and Space Exploration, Commercialization 1
Earth Resources and Space Exploration, Commercialization 2

Image Source:
Image # : AS10-32-4823 Date: May 23, 1969 Apollo 10, not copyrighted. NASA
Image #: SPD-SLRSY-1757 Date: August 23, 1966, not copyrighted. NASA

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