Increasing the sun's output by decreasing the distance to it

So the sun's lumens on an altitude of 0 is around 130 watts per square foot. I wonder if you were on a (3 miles tall) mouuntain if the output might be closer to 140-150 watts per square foot.

Lowered temperature when you get higher up, unless you were near the tropics or near the equator... ANyways... That's another thought another time.


Now what if you took four helium balloons and used them as boyeus to hold up a 12x12 lightweight platform, where you would have 40, equilibrium 3-gallon grow-bags lined up

You raised this platform ~miles into the sky (I'm thinking 15, but I smirk at this as that's really high up there when I think about it)
as to reduce the distance in-between your plants and the sun, theoretically increasing wattage per square foot




Something like this
http://img246.imageshack.us/img246/7727/firstdrawing.png

wicked man....lol........But Im sure the government would shoot it down and take it to area 51 and shit....lol....I understand your logic though....

How you gonna get the water up there?

frought with errors. that high up the temperatures are freezing, radiation is intense, and air is thin.

sorry to burst ur bubble

out.
PurfectStorm

You do realize that high up in the atmosphere the air is thin, meaning good luck growing a plant with the little amount of co2 that's up there

tnrtinr said:

How you gonna get the water up there?

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1a. Position it under clouds.
2a.Use a really strong (1000GPH), or four, solar panel-powered pump.

Maybe even have all four pumps combined into a single hose that extends straight through the middle of the platform, connects into a blossom-shaped sprinkler system for all 40 pots.


Maybe have the run-off, if there is any, flow back down to earth where it is either filtered, or even on the downward descent made to go through many little turbines which produce electricity based on the speed of descent and the time it takes for the water to stop moving, which could help power ....something for sure

PurfectStorm said:

frought with errors. that high up the temperatures are freezing, radiation is intense, and air is thin.

sorry to burst ur bubble

out.
PurfectStorm

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If true, it definitely burst my balloon

HippieMan said:

If true, it definitely burst my balloon

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Okay. Look

The sun is like 93,000,000 (thats million) miles from the earth

Do you really think getting it to 92,999,993 miles will make much of a difference?


& As stated before thin air

lumenosity is not measured in watts, it is measured in lumens.
your question might as well be, " Do you get wetter the deeper you go into the ocean?".
no, you don't. You get wet the whole way in.

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/ast99/ast99420.htm

read that and you will find that latitude would have a greater effect than altitude.

HippieMan said:

1a. Position it under clouds.
2a.Use a really strong (1000GPH), or four, solar panel-powered pump.

Maybe even have all four pumps combined into a single hose that extends straight through the middle of the platform, connects into a blossom-shaped sprinkler system for all 40 pots.


Maybe have the run-off, if there is any, flow back down to earth where it is either filtered, or even on the downward descent made to go through many little turbines which produce electricity based on the speed of descent and the time it takes for the water to stop moving, which could help power ....something for sure

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It was more of a rhetorical question.

Pumping water 15 miles vertical isn't as easy of a task as one may think.

The flow back to earth wont generate enough power to compensate for the power to use to pump the water up there.