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#1 2016-10-20 06:45:43

karov
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From: Bulgaria
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Flux Tube Auroral Artificial Suns?

I have in mind Io.

https://www.google.bg/search?q=io+flux+ … MhFonaM%3A

1-2 TWs of power.

How bright the polar aurorae of Io could be made if almost all of this utilized for a giant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent_lamp

In fact two such lamps ... north and south Io poles' ones.

Orrrr ... the plasma torus to be compacted and glown brighter via using the proposed by Alexander Bolonkin 'plasma cord' way - reminder: he states that by axially rotating a plasma 'line' it gets confined and compacted. ( https://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0701058.pdf  )

The TWs ( more then mere 1-2? how? ) could be mirror focused / tracking the other 3 Galileans: Europa, Ganymede and Calisto.

At destination the areal on-surface light distributions - again by optics.

The 3 Galileans aside Io have 0.375 Earth areas.

200-ish trillion sq.m.s

hmmmm ... too little.

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