{"id":4294,"date":"2011-07-09T10:32:39","date_gmt":"2011-07-09T17:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/?p=4294"},"modified":"2011-07-10T21:39:02","modified_gmt":"2011-07-11T04:39:02","slug":"killing-the-van-allen-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2011\/07\/09\/killing-the-van-allen-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing the Van Allen Belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about the very real dangers to astronauts and satellites that come from the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Van_Allen_radiation_belt\">Van Allen Radiation Belt<\/a>, so I don&#8217;t need to talk about that.<\/p>\n<p>While watching the Space Shuttle launch yesterday, and surfing, I came across this \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tethers.com\/HiVOLT.html\">plan to clear the Van Allen Belt of dangerous high energy electrons and protons<\/a>! &#8220;&#8230;Preliminary analyses indicate that a HiVOLT System can reduce the MeV particle flux in the inner electron belt to 1% of its natural levels within about two months&#8230;.&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4295\" title=\"RadiationBelts3\" src=\"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3-200x70.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3-300x106.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadiationBelts3-50x17.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Talk about terraforming! Right here on Terra!<\/p>\n<p>RIP Van Allen Belt, 3.5 billion BC &#8211; 2050AD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows about the very real dangers to astronauts and satellites that come from the Van Allen Radiation Belt, so I don&#8217;t need to talk about that. While watching the Space Shuttle launch yesterday, and surfing, I came across this \u00a0plan to clear the Van Allen Belt of dangerous high energy electrons and protons! &#8220;&#8230;Preliminary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4296,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4294\/revisions\/4296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}