Energy of the Future; What is Space Solar Power? / Energy (ePub)

ENERGY OF THE FUTURE

Space Solar Power is very likely to be the future of energy.

What is Space Solar Power?

Space based Solar Power (SBSP) or Space Solar Power (SSP) is a technology to harvest 24 hours a day energy from outside the atmosphere of the Earth and beam it safely to Earth. This would, its proponents argue, lessen, or even replace the need for fossil fuels or terrestrial renewable energy. This has knock on effects for social and economic justice because it lowers the need to extract harmful chemicals to make batteries and other technologies if the SSP is built to make hydrogen based liquid fuels. Space Based Solar Power would also change the way energy is distributed. If energy is required in a disaster zone, then mobile receiving systems could be deployed rapidly. The scale of SSP is both large and small, with minimum impact on the Earth's environment.

Space Solar power also has its detractors, with many people failing to understand that comparative approaches are alright if one understands that one has to try to compare like with like. Even proponents often make erroneous comparisons such as SSP with solar power in North African deserts or Southern Spain. These comparisons often do injustice to SSP which is a technology that will have far reaching effects.

Whoever controls SSP will become what Saudi Arabia is to the world of oil supplies. We hope though the SSP will be a commodity owned by the world for the world, in a truly egalitarian way. Therefore, this book is so much more than a technology review. It's a book that will touch upon the economics of energy and wider long-lasting impacts on a range of new technologies and markets yet to be created. It is a course about a vision that has been the lifelong work of John C Mankins and his predecessor, Peter Glazer, NASA scientists to whom we owe so much.

If you have interests in entrepreneurial projects of the future, economics, Sustainable architecture, Climate Change, Corporate Investment Responsibility, Leadership, Business Strategy, Business Analysis, banking, project management, journalism, science, robotics, aircraft, rockets, markets for space technology, the Great Reset, Greening our economy, space, moon bases or you like Star Trek, this is a book you will enjoy!