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Solar power satellite offshore rectenna study (Document No: 19800022386)
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
|---|---|
| Copyright Year | 1980 |
| Description | Offshore rectennas are feasible and cost competitive with land rectennas but the type of rectenna suitable for offshore use is quite different from that specified in the present reference system. A nonground plane design minimizes the weight and greatly reduces the number of costly support towers. This perferred design is an antenna array consisting of individually encapsulated dipoles with reflectors or tagis supported on feed wires. Such a 5 GW rectenna could be built at a 50 m water depth site to withstand hurricane, winter storm, and icing conditions for a one time cost of $5.7 billion. Subsequent units would be about 1.3 less expensive. More benign and more shallow water sites would result in substantially lower costs. The major advantage of an offshore rectenna is the removal of microwave radiation from populated areas. |
| File Size | 13658530 |
| Page Count | 251 |
| File Format | |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19800022386 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t8ff8kp7x |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1980-05-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Energy Production And Conversion Microwave Antennas Rectennas Satellite Solar Power Stations Microwave Transmission Yagi Antennas Antenna Design Technology Assessment Feasibility Analysis Cost Analysis Offshore Platforms Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Technical Report |
