space-based solar power

“China has also in the last five years made announcements towards putting gigawatt scale Space-based solar power systems into orbit by 20 50 with demonstrations planned later this decade.”

“Space-based solar power has all of the benefits of fusion, and some, because it can move power from one place to another place that is underneath the satellite essentially instantly over vast geographic regions without any loss, and even, you know, nuclear fus…”

“Any country, no matter where you are on the planet, as long as you have the technology to be able to put these collecting systems up in space and can put the receivers down on the ground, you know, where you need them, then you have access to this resource ess…”

“Peculiarly, space-based solar power is the, Only really promising form of clean energy, potential form of clean energy technology that I would argue the world is not investing in significantly because every other energy source that you can think of, whether it…”

“And I think this is what is being planned by a number of people in 20, 25 timeframe, including the Japanese space agency the U S military, the air force research laboratory has a program that intends to put a demonstrator in orbit as well in that timeframe and…”

“We're talking about a decade. Probably at the minimum, if there's a real push to make this happen, a moonshot like approach, putting a substantial amount of funding over that amount of time to do the R and D as well as the demos that you have to do along the w…”

“In fact, I'm old enough to remember that Pacific Gas and Electric, the utility in Northern California, actually signed a PPA for space-based solar In, I don't know, you could probably tell me in like 2009 or something like that, that obviously never went anywh…”

“With space-based solar power. This is really offering you a weather independent, 24 seven source of clean power. That's coming from an inexhaustible resource. And you basically solve the problem of intermittency without the need for storage.”

“The cost benefit studies for space-based solar power have shown in the past that once you get to cost below A thousand dollars or a thousand euros per kilo to low Earth orbit, then you're getting into the ballpark where this could be economically viable.”