FACT: There aren’t enough resources on this planet to sustain continued human growth and increasing quality of life. FACT: If we want to avoid catastrophic war, suffering, and global shortages of energy, we need to start looking to space seriously for solutions. Space Based Solar Power is the first step. Music – “Pulse” by Yoko Kanno www.energyfromspace.org
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if done right we need to spend hundreds of billions. new ways of getting huge amounts of mass into geo like a rotating leo tether and new ways of shunting mass across vast distances in space like mass drivers. using in situ resources from moon/asteroids and using the unique space environment to manufacture the main bulk of the sps in orbiting space stations. it would require a massive infastructure. but the electricity market is worth trillions and spin offs alone would be immense.
the resources needed to construct a vast space infastructure are only expensive if you do it using todays inefficient timid approach to space. a new type of rocket (nothing revolutionary) just a bigger version of the many others mass produced is needed, we can make use of most of the mass in the shuttles by simply using the fuel tanks instead of jettisoning them wastefully. a space station could be built using these tanks… you can even fit them out before they are filled with fuel
there are solutions for all the problems you have mentioned… you just need ambition and imagination, two things totally missing in national space programmes today. there is no way we can transmit electricity intercontinental through wires, already only 10-20% of electricity generated reches point of consumption long range transmision would increase this inefficiency by a factor of 10. the only credible alternative is to reduce our electricity consumption which will cost far more than sps
What the fuck do you know about it all (to use your own words) ? There are no cheap heavy weight launchers, A launch of 1kg costs about 20000€ today. There is no industry in space, and no resources for mining closer than the moon. And I DO know about solar technology, the solar cells are positioned in series so if you break one you lose the production of a whole chain of cells.
There’s a lot of space in deserts, like Northern Africa, use that space first for solar.
yeah sure, fusion the biggest fuck up in modern science. do you know how many billions of dollars have been poured into that bottomless pit already? and what have we got to show for it? a handful of working reactors that take up more energy than they give out. the idea of generating power is that power stations must contribute to the national grid – not suck it dry
i think you should be the one to pilot them into the suns orbit since its your idea.
you dont have to protect the panels from micro metiorites, why the fuck would you bother when at most they will only reduce the output by a fraction of a percent? do you know what a solar panel is?
a cheap heavy lift launch vehicle would need to be used to get the stuff up there because the space elevator is pie in the sky. it would be cheaper and more profitable in the long run to launch a smaller space mining mission to gather bennificate and cast the struts from resources in situ
thats the best part power beaming technology, its been around for ages and was actually originally developed as an alternative to the national grid. thats how old and safe this technology is. you build an antenna on the sattelite and a rectenna on the ground. its a concentrated beam of energy yet its not radioactive, nor does it damage living things… a bird or a plane could fly through it and not be affected at all.
Very Interesting!
To the people with all the negative comments. Thinking like yours is what has caused the US to fall behind in technology. Thankfully there are new companies in the US that aren’t affraid of pushing the limits of technology. I know you guys hate change but its coming.
The leading idea for power transmission from Space to Earth is concentrated microwaves – a solution which presents as many problems as it solves. Given the military resources and coal reserves of the United States, don’t expect us to give this a go until the 2050s or so. Japan, on the other hand may try as early as the 2030s.
These are great facts that lead to a great solution, however, directing it to the next president or any president of the US for that matter, is plain useless because the president does not make the decisions. He only gets about a 12% say in all of the country’s decisions. President is just someone the country can either thank for positive and productive doings, or point the finger and blame for any doings for which the citizens of the country disagree with.
good idea, and once we begin to colonize space we will use it for certain. i applaud the video, and am curious about how one may transmit the energy from outer space through the atmosphere into storage facilities on Earth?
I don’t know what the purpose is of this vid, but its everything but objective and true. Harvesting solar from space is (literally) far-sought. One can’t imagine the problems of getting the panels up there, protecting them against micro-meteorites (for one), there is no space elevator (yet, let’s hope there will be one in 25 years), do maintenance,
China and India will soon have higher energy demands than Europe and US together, are they in the plan?
In this case, the truth is down here.
that’s friggin brilliant! we can launch these solar modules into the sun orbits as close as possible..don’t even need to go collect energy, since a network of them can transmit energy back wirelessly or w/e efficient method. (i hope) then living in deep space colonies and fighting with gundams is that much closer!!
who made this vid?
i would like to use it in a project and i would like to know who to credit it to
Fusion is probably the better alternative. But In the nearer term, in 1-3 decades from now, I can see Space based solar power as a viable method to increase space commercialization.
i expected more flaming from all of you.
im disappointed
“FACT: There aren’t enough resources on this planet to sustain continued human growth and increasing quality of life.”
LMAO. That is NOT a fact.
Isn’t a space-elevator design being currently designed? Once its been built and tested, implementation of the SSP would be monetarily viable for large scale use.
at 4KW to 17KW per KG it’s really not that expensive to produce them here and launch them…. A 100 MW’s in space and a more advanced lifter could be powered with a maser(microwave laser).
A MHD scramjet with a 100 MW magnetoplasma fusion torch ripping apart CO2 H2O in the compressed air into ionized plasma, super heating it. That will get megatons of cargo into space.
PLEASE EVERYONE LOOK UP NIKOLA TESLA! there is no need for people to suffer because they dont have energy. tesla made wireless power which would have allowed anyone energy at any point on earth, i even demonstrate his wireless energy system! please watch and spread! tesla is our longterm answer.
If Solaren, PowerSat, or other private groups can get 100% of their stuff up from the ground and show a return, I’m all for it. Great proof-of-concept for a National SBSP program using lunar materials. 99% of sunsat mass can come from the moon with 97% cost savings. It solves the permanent energy requirement and the climate problem. It defends the earth from NEOs by processing them. It is the industrial reason for permanent settlement of space. Obama can roll a space and energy program into one.
America could afford to do this! Go to my facebook page@ vijayanc where i posted my solution to a ONE or TWO launch satellite solar power solution.
Not even America could afford to do this. Your talking about powering the whole world with a couple of hundred solar panels in space. Thats going to be a bit difficult.