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. Music - “Pulse” by Yoko Kanno www.energyfromspace.org
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why all the downer comments on this video. this concept can save the world in so many ways.
@ORVX I agree, thats the point I made, It seems that its all a grab for money, there are some well intentioned people out their, but, all this hype is harming the true cause. Entropy laws says you cannot get out more than you put in, the best you could ever get is a 1 to 1 energy exchange, with that amount of power required, how big will it have to be, Dubai International Airport is the largest building made by man at 1.5km2 this would be a spec compared to what would have to be built in space.
@bagtaggar I think you can make comments like that when you can answer question about the project. So, how big will it be, how are we going to manufacture 10 million times more photoelectric cells than we have ever made, what are the atmospheric affects of transferring so much power to earth. PS I dont know ORVX, its just your ignorance Im commenting on.
I agree, thats the point I made, It seems that its all a grab for money, there are some well intentioned people out their, but, all this hype is harming the true cause. Entropy laws says you cannot get out more than you put in, the best you could ever get is a 1 to 1 energy exchange, with that amount of power required, how big will it have to be, Dubai International Airport is the largest building made by man at 1.5km2 this would be a spec compared to what would have to be built in space.
The greatest inspiration to science is sci-fi
The greatest hindrance is that people believe the sci-fi.
Sci-fi = (science fiction, movies, shows, books)
It seems to me that all these big companies with big ideas all after big money.
Why is it that I can email the top 12 companies for more info, and none bother to email back????
@RegnevaDeksam lol you could have just said you were dyslexic and esl
@insane66613 As for people listening to me, well I did not ask anyone to listen to me, I am assuming that are not dyslexic and are capable of reading, if not understanding, I posed some question, I did not ask anyone to list to me.
@insane66613 Well yes, I am dyslexic and yes English is not my first language (how many do you speak) Dude sounds like you are highly educated, it never entered into you mind to look at the concepts and not the text. Now as quantum mechanics is my field of interest, I do understand the relevance of the experiment, and am happy to put my mathematical knowledge against someone who thinks that 666 and 13 are cool.
Well yes, I am dyslexic and yes English is not my first language (how many do you speak) Dude sounds like you are highly educated, it never entered into you mind to look at the concepts and not the text. Now as quantum mechanics is my field of interest, I do understand the relevance of the experiment, and am happy to put my mathematical knowledge against someone who thinks that 666 and 13 are cool.
Science on cue has the answer to this problem.
the god partial? colluder? dude you don’t even know how to spell, why should we listen to you. do you have any idea the technology that comes from such experiments not to mention the vast new understandings about the universe? this is why people don’t listen to you.
So wrong… if we went to the max with all alternative energy sources we would easily produce more than enough energy to power the whole world 100 times over.
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.
What about the possibility of the LHC and possible discovery of the ‘god particle’ which will provide us unlimited energy?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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?
I didn’t knew that. but that sounds very positive
@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.
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
Unless this guy is promoting Microwave tech which is Science Fiction.
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.