Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella
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1,941 appearances
6 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 19 Sep
Dr. Robert (Bob) Novella’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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So large reflectors would direct sunlight onto solar panels.
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The power they produced would be converted into high-frequency radio waves and beamed to an ellipse-shaped receiving station at ground level, possibly at sea, which would be around –
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13 kilometers long and 6.5 kilometers wide.
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That's 8 miles by 4 miles.
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The beam itself, it wouldn't be some death beam immediately giving you skin cancer to anyone who crossed the path of the beam.
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It would really only be about a quarter as intense as the equator's sun, so they claim.
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So that's pretty negligible.
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They do claim though that more research is needed to see how the beam might affect aircraft communication.
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So that sounds fair, right?
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We've been talking about that enough lately.
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Now, one of these satellite stations they claim would provide two gigawatts.
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of AC power into the grid, which is nice.
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That's actually really nice.
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If you look at the average, I did some research, the average nuclear power plant is about a gig, a gigawatt.
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So this is like double the average.
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So it's a good nuclear power station equivalent there.
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The Space Energy Initiative co-chair Martin Saltau said that 15 of these satellites would fill 30% of the UK's electricity needs or the anticipated needs by mid-2040.
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15!
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15 of those.
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I think so.
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