Space Based Solar Power - Alternative Energy Solution

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.

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[tk100]

This is the way of the future. As always, science and technology are the final salvation of mankind. If technology fail then it's the end of civilization. It's sad to know that the US spend so little money on these things. Example: Large Hadron Collider cost 9 billion. Iraq war? 991billions and counting.

[ivanjesik]

if we will get an energetic surplus, it will change our priorities :-)

i think, it can be good :-)

and specially for cosmic travelling :-))

[Prestostark]

@woollerland Unfortunately, it's obvious that you are not up on this technology at all. There is an excellent book on the topic called "Sun Power - The Global Solution to the Coming Energy Crisis". It was written by a Boeing engineer who was involved with the design process of this system back in the 70's, after the first oil embargo. It will answer a lot of questions for you. Wireless energy transmission is no theory, its a fact. This is the ONLY energy system that can save the U.S. economy.

[eacao]

How do you keep the energy being sent down highly efficient. If you used a laser, it would be no different to having solar panels on the ground since the atmosphere absorbs most of the energy and microwave, from a geosynch orbit is going to spread out a lot!

[eacao]

There are a few facts which are wrong. In a geosynchronous orbit, the satellite would get 22 hours of sunlight per day, and there is 8x more energy per square meter in orbit than on the ground. Also, there is a big difference between a communications satellite and a solar farm, the cost of launching something that size is going to bankrupt any nation. Although, I am fully convinced that space based solar, along with fusion will solve our energy needs past 2050 or later.

[1019079]

This is my aff for this years debate topic. Pretty good aff

[AdamNoAnts]

Wireless energy, clean renewable resources, the elite hoard our tehnology, our rulers our spiritually unenlightened pagan atheists... Followed by corporate tools, wake up

[AdamNoAnts]

Woolerlland you're an idiot, research nikola tesla. Wireless energy, and the hazards of coal oil and nuclear, Jp Morgan chose our path for profit and to poison air and water so he can eventually sell us that too

[LordSapiens]

@woollerland The energy is sent to Earth via microwaves.

[LordSapiens]

Wow. I had seen this video many times before, but I didn't know it was you who made it o_O

Awesome.

[woollerland]

bah this is all theory... nuclear plants are getting more efficent every decade and with the introduction of fussion power in the next 50 years or less, we''ll have a fairly unlimtied supply of fuel (water) which will also solved the ice caps flooding problem ;)

theres one thing collecting the energy from space but how are you going to transport it back to earth?? mass ammounts of wires... hmm....? by the time it gets to earth, alot of the energy would have been wasted by traveling so far...