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Space Based Solar Power – Alternative Energy Solution
Posted under News by Webmaster at 03:34 on Feb 04 2010
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
1 RegnevaDeksamon 04 Feb 2010 at 04:29
Lets Not live in the fantasy that science will on queue have a solution to this problem.
LHC, The god Partial, Zero Point Energy, and Quantum Vortexes, Maybe we can wait for the spacemen to come and show us LOL. Sorry having a laugh with a very serious subject. We dont know where the colluder will lead us (breakdowns and repairs I guess), I believe its only real purpose is pure science. Knowing how God started the whole bigbang off is not really going to help us solve a global power problem.
2 TheBlingblingbroson 04 Feb 2010 at 05:01
What about the possibility of the LHC and possible discovery of the ‘god particle’ which will provide us unlimited energy?
3 RegnevaDeksamon 04 Feb 2010 at 05:38
PS: I could not confirm this figure (but its the only one I have got)
The some total production of cells come to 10 square kilometres, by todays standards that is .0045% of what is required to power the US, forget the world, forget the massive ramp up of power requirement in the next 90 years. It is time to start the mammoth project of fixing it, before we regress to the Stone Age.
4 RegnevaDeksamon 04 Feb 2010 at 06:35
Heres a question, how many cells are required for 1130 quadrillion BTUs, Im guessing a lot more than a lot. In all the years since the first high efficiency cell was made, about 50 yrs, how many where produced? I doubt we will ever produce that type of power from cells. But they are on the right path. Building things in space is the solution, we should take a pointer from the sun, its basically a huge nuclear reaction. No one wants to live next door to a reactor, no problem in space.
5 4664524on 04 Feb 2010 at 07:01
the tech sound good boosting the required equipment into a stable orbit will take time and vast resources I dought there is enough launch vehicals to do this at the moment on anothere note there are aproximitly 900 operational satilites in orbit at the moment this is not counting debrie and natural objects the risk of colition with one of these orbital objects is huge.
6 fireboot1on 04 Feb 2010 at 07:08
they have the technology, they have the resources, but they are afraid that they will fail. things you think is sci fi is actually just science. we have technology to send energy from one location to another
7 TheNagatoyukion 04 Feb 2010 at 07:39
Japan announces plans to orbit solar power satellites that will transmit energy back to earth via laser beams. They hope to have the first one orbiting by 2030.
8 robert66michelon 04 Feb 2010 at 08:38
I thought one of the reasons we went after saddam was because he was building a super gun that could easily and cheaply just shoot material and weapons into orbit.and I,ve seen recent advances in wireless transmission of energy that are finaly recognizing Teslas 100 year old tech.or are the naysayers claiming that guns and electricity are a vast green conspiracy?
9 QEV8Con 04 Feb 2010 at 08:51
I didn’t knew that. but that sounds very positive
10 magelpieon 04 Feb 2010 at 09:21
@QEV8C : The research is already complete! Satellites such as the ones proposed here do not need any new technology to work. And Japan, Switzerland and the U.S.s Pacific Gas & Electric are all exploring little pilot projects right now.
11 QEV8Con 04 Feb 2010 at 10:01
All the recources that we need to build all of the solar power cells. That is going to take years of research, then years of political discussion, then years of building them( and what kind of energy do we need to build them?). By the time it is finished it is past 2100. this way takes to long. But the Idea is ok. It just doesn’t work with the world we know now
12 Darkwizzrobeon 04 Feb 2010 at 10:57
Unless this guy is promoting Microwave tech which is Science Fiction.
13 Darkwizzrobeon 04 Feb 2010 at 11:28
So is this like Microwave Power that I heard of or are we using some sorta of long electric arc to get that power down to earth.
14 Darkwizzrobeon 04 Feb 2010 at 12:18
No a space elevator is a elevator in the sky.
15 Darkwizzrobeon 04 Feb 2010 at 12:43
Well that’s because the technology is still in the R&D phase.
16 hukt0nf0nikzon 04 Feb 2010 at 12:59
man you’re a fucking retard
17 RaynorXon 04 Feb 2010 at 13:12
space solar power, if that’s not clean energy then I don’t know what is
18 ORVXon 04 Feb 2010 at 14:10
lol, I don’t have any video’s.
19 bagtaggaron 04 Feb 2010 at 14:50
I just watched some of your videos…
All I have to say is – conspiracy theories are intellectual sophistication for the ignorant.
And you have a wealth of that.
20 ORVXon 04 Feb 2010 at 15:21
Im all for finding better way’s to extract energy, but when I see shit like I saw in your video I realize I have to look elswhere, I know propaganda when I see. Please stop your hurting the cuase, stop your lies.
21 inuyashaghydjon 04 Feb 2010 at 15:36
srry to be a total blonde and ask this but…… whats the song called…??? ..plus…ive already made my opinionated comment 1yr ago….
22 TalksWithDirton 04 Feb 2010 at 15:54
Well I wish that were true. We still pay $5000/lb to LEO . Let’s say Musk cuts that in half to $2500/lb. If SSP requires $100/lb to LEO and we get a new Musk every 20 years we need 4 more halvings to get LEO costs down to the $100/lb mark. At 20 years per halving, that’s 80 years. Given ‘progress’ since Apollo which was 40 years ago, 80 years does not sound outrageous at this rate. What you want is an enterprise whos job it is to develop cheap ISP 300 and cheap ISP 400 rocket engines.
23 bagtaggaron 04 Feb 2010 at 16:44
Disagree, I think we are more forward looking at this point in history than we have ever been in decades, indeed centuries past. People in the 1800s weren’t concerned about climate predictions spanning 100 years, science fiction wasn’t part of their daily digest.
That said, technology is improving exponentially. And cheap access to space is literally around the corner, thanks to the COTS program, and Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
24 TalksWithDirton 04 Feb 2010 at 17:36
Well it’s either this or fusion. Both have some missing parts. None of our fusions reactors are net energy producers except the ones that last phempto seconds. But for space solar power all you need is cheap access to space. One day one of those will be developed. But with the broken institutions of the West, the more likely outcome will be us using the same power in 2100 that we used in the 1920′s. We are not a forward looking society anymore.
25 OakIslandBanditon 04 Feb 2010 at 17:39
The technology for a “leo tether” is just not there yet,even building from top down,a space elebator would have to be able to withstand roughly 60-100 gigapascals(gpa) of tension.Steel snaps at about 2 gpa,even carbon nanotubes aren’t there yet.Pure nanotubes
fibers in labs are only 15mm long,1 atom misaligned would knock it’s strenght down by 30%.NASA has prize $,figure it out,win the $10 mil,all else is just talk,take me on a cruise when you win the prize