Solar Surrounder Satellite Network

The planets of the Solar System rotate around the sun on a plane. When we send research vehicles to these planets, communication with them is only possible if there is direct line of sight. When the vehicle is on the other side of the Sun communication is interrupted. Depending on the periodicity of the orbit of the vehicle these dead times can be months or years. Therefore, we need relay communication satellites rotating around the sun that enables Earth link between anywhere on our Solar System at any time. 

Earth's orbit is the path in which the Earth travels around the Sun. Earth lies at an average distance of 150 million kilometers from the Sun and Earth travels 940 million kilometers around the Sun. That is a challenging task. Astrophysicists need to come up with solutions that even the farthest satellite could be launched with the current space rockets. Finally, the Solar Surrounder Satellite Network should be complementing the planetary Low Orbit relays for every planet and moon we plan to explore. 

Why We Should Go To Venus

The solution to the world's energy problem as well as long range space travel is Fusion. There is numerous research conducted on the topic. However, the progress is very slow and not promising. I propose to search the solution close to the Sun, the Fusion source of our Solar System. There are two planets on the way to the Sun. Mercury and Venus. Going and coming back from Venus is much easier than going to Mars or other planets. Venus is the closest planet to the Earth. While travelling to Venus, the Sun's gravity acts positive. Also path to Venus has much less meteorites on the way compared to Mars. Establishing a research base on Venus is much easier while the energy is abundant and free, the heat of the atmosphere. It is like working in an oven. Dense atmosphere allows air travel so large distances can be covered on the surface. When you have continuous high energy source, you can mine anything and can convert them to anything to build your base as well as convert them to rocket fuel to explore Mercury and beyond in order to come up with a feasible Fusion solution.

When you succeed in developing a Fusion Rocket, sending humans safely to Mars and moons of Saturn and safely bringing them back would be much easier. 

Sometimes in order to solve a problem you have to go to the opposite way.

Energy Generation for Biological Implants

Energy source is a problem in all body implants. We need to come up with a system that can generate high power without frequent external refueling. This can be achieved by mimicking the body's energy source. Adenosine Tri-Phosphate (ATP) captures chemical energy obtained from the breakdown of sugar molecules and releases it to fuel other cellular processes. We can try to create electricity from sugar. A prototype sugar fuel cell was built by Sony in 2007. I believe we should keep working on this idea and improve it. In human body electric generators with higher power output would solve many health problems (artificial heart, hearing aid … with build battery).

Sony Develops "Bio Battery" Generating Electricity from Sugar

Sony makes a sugar battery

Magnesium Rocket

I had previously proposed a flying wing for a Space Ship design. Unfortunately, it is technically impossible to build a single stage long range space ship with chemical propulsion. However, my flying wing design can still be used as a reusable first stage Space Ship. This stage would reach Low Earth Orbit (~300km) with heavy cargo. As a second stage I propose a single use rocket with solid fuel. The second stage rocket will be made of Magnesium which also serve as the solid fuel. Mg/CO₂ propellent is studied by NASA in 2007.  Powdered Magnesium—Carbon Dioxide Rocket Combustion Technology for In Situ Mars Propulsion CO₂ can be easily stored in solid form making it a total solid fueled rocket. The third stage of the Space Ship would be released from the second stage before the structural Magnesium outer shell of the second stage is consumed. The second stage would keep burning till most of it is consumed including its outer shell. This yields minimum Space Debris. The final speed of the second stage would exceed the escape velocity so no debris would fall on the Earth.

EQR - Equalizer Quattro Race

All sports competitions are separated for men, women and disabled. I thought about a motor racing platform that utilizes an Equalizing Racing Car, so men, women and disabled can compete with each other in the same race. It will be league based competition. There will be total of four leagues, first, second, third and fourth league like in football. The competition will comprise of sprint and endurance races. There will be four sprint tracks and these four sprint tracks will be partially connected together to form the endurance track. All sprint tracks will be 4 km and the endurance track will be 16 km in length. Each league will have four sub categories; men, women, disabled men, disabled women. In each sub category there will be 16 competitors. All competitors will drive the same car The Equalizer. The aim of these competition is to compete the racers not the cars. The Equalizer will be all electric car with minimum automatic racing support system. The controllers within the car will vary according to the user's disability if it exists and these controllers will not give additional advantage to the driver. Each car will have the same weight with its driver. Additional weights will be added to each car to achieve this. The racing season will start in January and end in December. There will be 4 sub-seasons within the season. Ex: Winter Season, January, February, March. In the first four weeks of the season there will be sixteen sprint competitions with multiple races, four in every week. The sprint races will be 40 turns on a 4 km sprint track, total of 160 km. In every competition day. The morning session will be ordering race to determine the starting position of each racer. Each sub category racer will compete within itself first. Therefore, first four races of the day will be among each sub category. The final and the fifth race of the day will be among the first four racers of each category. The ordering will be determined according to each racer's performance of their subcategory race. The first four racers will attend the award ceremony. Racers will earn point in every race they attend. After four weeks there will be a week of resting and on the first weekend there will be the endurance race. The first endurance race of the sub-season will be 100 tours around the 16 km track (1600 km). There will be 16 teams formed among the racers according to their position in their subcategory for that sub-season. Ex: The first-place racers will form the race team 1 and have the door number 1 on their cars. Unlike traditional endurance races each racer will use their own car. Therefore, each team will have four cars and four spare cars. Each racer will earn point according to their own performance and their team's overall performance. After the endurance weekend there will be another week of rest. Then there will be four weeks of sprint races again. After that another week of rest and on the first weekend there will be the endurance race. It will be the second endurance race of the sub-season. It will be a 24-Hour race around the 16 km endurance track. The team formation will be the same as the first endurance race but the ranking will be based on the total points earned in that sub-season. After the race there will be week of rest and the sub-season will end. In each sub-season only one sprint track will be used by the league members. The teams will move to the next sprint track after each sub-season. At the end of the fourth sub-season the overall season will end and the Season Champions will be announced based on their subcategory.

VTOL Transportation

I believe in VTOL passenger planes. The reason is that it takes several hours to fly from one destination to another. However, it takes more to get to and from an airport, wait for to take off, wait for the luggage …  We have to come up with a transportation system to optimize the overall time not the time on air.

VTOL plane would utilize 3 or 5 engines. 1 at the back and the rest on the wings. Engines would have thrust vectoring for VTOL. LOX (liquid oxygen) would be used to boost thrust at takeoff. The luggage would be carried in cages underneath the plane and automatically transferred to the basement underneath the plane's landing point. Passengers get their luggage from the basement without a carousel and leave the VTOL airport.

Nanometric Semiconductors

The transistors inside a digital chip are in nanometers scale. The electron travelling doped semi conducting part is in the order of several nanometers. The main purpose of the rest of the semiconductor on a wafer is to form a mechanical base and insulate electron flow. I propose this doped semi conducting part to be created individually for each transistor. Therefore, larger chips can be more economically build in real 3d, transistor above another transistor would be possible. Creating each transistor individually may look like a slow process but single machine chip manufacturing can be a reality and overall chip manufacturing speed would be higher. Microchips are made by building up layers of interconnected patterns on a semiconducting wafer. The microchip manufacturing process involves hundreds of steps and can take up to four months from design to mass production.