Space Based Solar Power – Alternative Energy Solution [Video]
Alternative Energy Solution: Video of Space Based Solar Power
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
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February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Nice
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Ahh, Chu!
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
OH
MY
GOD
IT’S TRANSMITTED BY MICROWAVES
Haha people, please, google it.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Sure it’s nice and cool, but there is one HUGE BUT – how to get that energy back to earth. In space we have no use for such energy quantities, but getting it to earth is very problematic. Like … you can’t just stretch out 10 000km long cabele from space to your house. While geting it home with stransmitters, could end in disaster. Just imagine in space the tranmitter goes 1cm away from it’s course, on earth those would be pretty many km, and those km could end up in a city.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Wonderful. Hope he sees this!
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Ground solar is needed, but it suffers distance transmission, storage, and intermittency issues. The collectors produce a relevant amount of waste heat. Real estate under the collector farm is useless for other purposes. All clean ground feeder strategies are needed in areas where they work. To meet full requirements, space solar is necessary to power up over the course of this century. SBSP is the only strategy that diversifies the ecological niche, and this activity better secures species.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
There IS plenty of solar power on earth, a fraction of the desert area would cover our current energy, and also the projected 3x energy need, and that’s for 10% efficiency panels. Check out the ’solar land area’ picture in the wikipedia article on ’solar energy’.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I’ve read about these beams, and I’m prepared to stroll naked through the beam if somebody thinks that’ll prove the point: the beam is safe.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
OK, who wants to be the first one standing in the way of that beam???
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Casanuda, you really ought to do some research before making very uninformed statements. Do a google search for “NSS space solar power”. It’s the first link.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Sounds like poorly thought out pseudo-science with zero research to me. Most of your statistics are also completely false as well.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
counting the obstacles to this dream is good:
“search and destroy” them.
This is the strongest ability of your country.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Negative 1 eh?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
nice video
couple things
1. we havent gotten a single drop of oil from iraq
and i hear that way to much
2. getting back down here
other then that
nice work on the vid
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
We can’t be covering up uch sensitive habitat with toxic solar panels… are you nuts?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Try that with a radio transmission tower… please…
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
DC power storage has huge problems with arsine… these idiots must want everyone to die of cancer by age 30…
Nuclear power emits absolutely ZERO of the so-called “greenhouse” gasses these idiots are talking about.
Solar panels require an incredibly toxic process to manufacture…
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Nuclear power does not emit any of those so-called “greenhouse gasses.”
Putting thousands of rockets into space burns holes like Swiss cheese in the ozone layer…
These ecofascists’ answer to everything is “google it” with absolutely no science to back them up…
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
After you, darling.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
So please present us with your superior idea.
If all you’ve got is the dreadfully old “fapping to Star Trek” line, then YOU are accomplishing less than nothing, and in a boring way to boot.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
“However, Microwave power transmission is, as I said, largely untested. It has been tested, but not many a time.”
It’s been tested a lot more than sustainable fusion, let alone sustainable fusion with He3.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
And that alone will employ a lot of people. A lot more than “a few hundred.”
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
There is a message at the end of this video encouraging people to google this subject. If people would do that, or even read more of the posts here before asking this same question AGAIN, they would know the answer to “how do you get the power down to Earth?”
You beam it down. No, really. Lasers could do it, and so could short-wave radio or microwaves. I favor micros myself. This has been tested on Earth (Hawaii, to be precise), and it works. Now we just need to do it from Space.
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
Everybody put solar panels on your roof!
Great, if you have some sprawling house with lots of area per resident. I live in an upstairs apartment. On a cloudy day, there is no way a rooftop solar panel is going to meet either my needs OR those of the little old lady downstairs, much less BOTH of us. Even a bright summer day is pushing it, and that’s just for me OR her, not both.
And what about people living in three-story apartment buildings? Or towering housing blocks? What about hotels?
February 18th, 2009 at 11:19 am
I don’t know man. I guess you’re going to have to redo this with another fifteen seconds at the end explaining “how do we get the power down.”