Comments on: Timmy Elsewhere http://timworstall.com/2008/12/15/timmy-elsewhere-586/ It is all obvious or trivial except... Fri, 25 May 2012 01:39:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mr Potarto http://timworstall.com/2008/12/15/timmy-elsewhere-586/comment-page-1/#comment-24809 Mr Potarto Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:37:12 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5307#comment-24809 It would be 36,000 km above the Earth, the Earth's radius is about 6,000 km. I see, it's describing a circle seven times larger than the Earth, so it would only be obscured by the Earth for a small period of time around midnight. It would be 36,000 km above the Earth, the Earth’s radius is about 6,000 km.

I see, it’s describing a circle seven times larger than the Earth, so it would only be obscured by the Earth for a small period of time around midnight.

]]> By: Mr Potarto http://timworstall.com/2008/12/15/timmy-elsewhere-586/comment-page-1/#comment-24804 Mr Potarto Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:13:13 +0000 http://timworstall.com/?p=5307#comment-24804 "given that such systems would be in geostationary orbit we don't have to worry about night and day (or cloud cover, obviously) so we solve the storage problem as well." Is that right? I would have thought that geostationary orbit meant that half the time the satellite would be in darkness, producing no power. Tim adds: Err, no. Geostationary is a long way up. “given that such systems would be in geostationary orbit we don’t have to worry about night and day (or cloud cover, obviously) so we solve the storage problem as well.”

Is that right?

I would have thought that geostationary orbit meant that half the time the satellite would be in darkness, producing no power.

Tim adds: Err, no. Geostationary is a long way up.

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