News today
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He keeps getting lucky while the "experts" hate his tariffs.
FYI Tidbit for the day: This showed up in my email. It is a startup, associated with Meta that plans to put satellites in orbit to beam infrared power to data centers. No idea if it will work but it got me thinking, who controls satellite bandwidth around the earth?
Turns out there is a part of the UN called the International Telecommunications Union that tries to allocate satellite locations and manage radio frequencies across borders. No enforcement power other than member nations are supposed to listen to them.
To keep a satellite stationary to communicate with a fixed location, it needs to be over the equator, which is becoming prime territory. Starlink has 10,000 satellites in lower orbit that are not stationary but as China, India etc expand they will want to crowd into this space. I'm sure it will go better than the Colorado river basin managing its water supply....
Once Trump solves Iran, oil prices, inflation, and cheating in voting (well 3 out of 4) maybe he can work on satellites.
Happy Tuesday!
Turns out there is a part of the UN called the International Telecommunications Union that tries to allocate satellite locations and manage radio frequencies across borders. No enforcement power other than member nations are supposed to listen to them.
To keep a satellite stationary to communicate with a fixed location, it needs to be over the equator, which is becoming prime territory. Starlink has 10,000 satellites in lower orbit that are not stationary but as China, India etc expand they will want to crowd into this space. I'm sure it will go better than the Colorado river basin managing its water supply....
Once Trump solves Iran, oil prices, inflation, and cheating in voting (well 3 out of 4) maybe he can work on satellites.
Happy Tuesday!
| Space Solar Bet |
| Meta yesterday announced a deal with startup Overview Energy to purchase solar power collected by satellite and beamed back to Earth, an experimental approach that could power data centers at night. Unlike traditional solar power, which relies on storing daylight, space-based solar power aims to deliver continuous energy. Overview Energy plans to deploy satellites over 22,000 miles above Earth's equator, where they would collect and transmit infrared energy to solar panels. A test is scheduled for 2028, with a commercial rollout in 2030. Meta is seeking up to 1 gigawatt of power from the project, underscoring its energy needs for AI. In 2024, Meta's data centers consumed 18,000 times the electricity that this deal would deliver in a single hour. |
