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The Origins of Solar Energy Reliability
Source: Energy Collective : Date: 2013-06-20
During the oil crises of the 1970s, the Department of Energy funded a proposal to transform solar technologies developed to power early space exploration. “It was the beginning of the terrestrial PV program,” explained Ronald Ross, who was the NASA-Jet ...
A new paradigm for space-based solar power
Source: Next Big Future : Date: 2013-06-19
Although the concept of space-based solar power has existed since the 1970s, several intractable technical problems have impeded its development. In particular, thousands of tons of equipment would need to be sent into orbit to create a single large power satellite. A space-based solar power advocate, John Mankins , has created a concept that...
National Space Society Will Pitch Space-based Solar Power To G8 Nations
Source: CleanTechnica : Date: 2013-06-18
India and the US-based National Space Society have finally announced the launch of a space-based solar power initiative that plans to market the idea of economically (and certainly technically) viable space-based solar power infrastructure to ...
Space Solar Power: Key to a Livable Planet Earth
Source: Nanotechnology News (press release) : Date: 2013-06-11
The following is a joint statement of Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, Former President of the Republic of India and Mr. Mark Hopkins, Executive Committee Chairman, National Space Society. We, Dr. Kalam and Mr. Hopkins, have long shared humanity's dream of ...
Global Space Solar Power Plan Unveiled
Source: Aviation Week : Date: 2013-06-10
Tapping into the Sun's power and beaming it down to an energy-hungry planet is an idea that has been around for decades. Now, amid stark predictions that even the most renewable energy resources will be insufficient to sustain the Earth's population later this century, serious attention is beginning to be paid to how such grandiose schemes can be turned into reality. Ambitious plans for one such internationally developed Space Solar Power (SSP) system to provide energy on a global scale...
Space Solar Power: Key to a Livable Planet Earth
Source: Space Ref (press release) : Date: 2013-06-10
National Space Society (NSS) today announces a new space solar power international initiative. NSS endorses this initiative and will work to forge an international organization involving America, India and other nations to develop space solar power ...
Carnival of Space 304
Source: Next Big Future : Date: 2013-06-08
Nextbigfuture - components of a solar power space satellite are described in the NASA Innovative advanced concepts project final report by John Mankin. John Mankins, a longtime U.S. SSP advocate, presented an update on an advanced concept under ...
Components of Solar power satellite alpha
Source: Next Big Future : Date: 2013-05-28
The SPS-ALPHA concept represents a very different architecture for space solar power, involving a hyper-modular approach in which all platform elements can be mass produced, and none are larger than a “small sat”. If proven feasible, SPS-ALPHA could ...
Abdul Kalam calls for space solar power research
Source: Business Standard : Date: 2013-05-25
"Within the next six months, we need to bring out a workable research document for marketing space solar power to space-faring nations," Kalam said Friday at the 32nd International Space Development Conference (ISDC) in his acceptance speech on ...
ISS to join hands with US society to harness solar power in space
Source: Indian Express : Date: 2013-05-18
The global electricity demand is expected to increase by 87 per cent around 2035. It is believed that by 2050 the world may not be able to fulfill its overall energy requirements in spite of using every available energy resource. In such a scenario ...
Beyond Earth's Atmosphere : Energy Needs For Space Colonization
Source: Forbes : Date: 2013-05-05
Energy resources that can be harvested in space for the benefit of Earth include helium-3 that occurs in abundance on both the Moon and asteroids and is ideal for new small fusion plants, as well as solar energy that can be collected and transmitted in ...
Space: the power frontier
Source: San Antonio Express : Date: 2013-04-27
NASA engineer who lives in San Antonio, is part of group of former space agency guys who think that a flotilla of satellites gathering solar power and beaming it to Earth as a focused, high intensity microwave beam might be a permanent solution for the ...
IEA Says Drive To Clean World Energy System Has Stalled
Source: Wall Street Journal : Date: 2013-04-17
The world has made almost no progress towards reducing the carbon content of its energy supplies in the last 20 years, despite pumping trillions of dollars of investment into renewable energy projects like wind and solar power, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday...
Look up: 'Our future is in a solar power plant in space'
Source: Caboolture News : Date: 2013-04-16
A MOUNTAIN Creek resident believes he has found the solution to the "carbon crisis" - but it's not on this planet. Kim Peart, the founder of Space Pioneers, says governments need to "invest our resources in the construction of solar power stations in ...
'Space technology can help satisfy energy needs'
Source: Business Standard : Date: 2013-04-05
Space science is not an inaccessible subject with little relevance to day-to-day living, as some think it is, but a discipline which can lead to techniques that tap sunshine to meet our growing energy needs, renowned astrophysicist Dr Jayant Narlikar ...
Blue Sky Thinking
Source: Slate Magazine : Date: 2013-03-27
Today, it's doubters of space solar power who are misguided, he says. If solar power were harnessed at large scale in space, he says, it could prove cheaper, more reliable, and more productive than solar power on Earth, which today serves up ...
Power plant in space: Industry savior or threat to Earth?
Source: Russia Beyond The Headlines : Date: 2013-02-13
Russia is currently considering the possibility of building a giant solar-energy plant in space, from which electricity could be generated and directly transmitted to Earth. Several countries have plans to build power plants in space in the coming ...
Satellites and lasers to deliver solar power from space - Russia
Source: EcoSeed : Date: 2013-03-07
Russian scientists have proposed building a giant orbiting power station capable of harnessing solar energy and beaming it to Earth. According to a The Voice of Russia report, the idea has been suggested by Central Scientific Research institute for ...
Russia plans giant solar power station to orbit Earth
Source: The Voice of Russia : Date: 2013-03-04
Russia is thinking of building a giant solar power station capable of collecting energy and beaming it to Earth. This idea was put forward by Central Scientific Research institute for Engineering, a subsidiary of the Russian Space Agency, Roskosmos.
Beam me down, Scotty: Space-based solar power finally comes of age
Source: ExtremeTech : Date: 2013-03-01
Solar power has the potential to solve all of humankind's energy problems. The amount of solar energy that reaches the surface of the Earth, per year, is somewhere in the region of 8,000 times higher than our current power requirements. If we were to...
Scientists want to shoot down asteroids with solar-powered space lasers
Source: CTV News : Date: 2013-02-23
They are proposing a massive, solar-powered "orbital defence system" that could harness the power of the sun to destroy space rocks long before they came within striking distance of Earth. Their proposal is getting attention a week after a large meteor ...
This Week On The Space Show
Source: Space Fellowship : Date: 2013-01-21
His articles have focused primarily on national space policy, access to space and space solar power. His creation of a slide show and talk in 1990, explaining and promoting space solar power to non-technical audiences, led to the publication of his ...
Space-based solar energy may solve energy crisis: Kalam
Source: Times of India : Date: 2012-12-16
COIMBATORE: The two-day Southern Regional Science Congress marking the centenary year of Indian Science Congress Association began at Kongunadu Arts and Science College here on Saturday with the theme of `Science for shaping future of India.
How space-based solar power will solve all our energy needs
Source: io9 : Date: 2012-11-29
How space-based solar power will solve all our energy needs Humanity's demand for energy is growing at an astonishing rate. Combine this with an ever-dwindling supply of fossil fuels, and it becomes painfully clear that something innovative and ...
This Week On The Space Show
Source: Space Fellowship : Date: 2012-07-16
At Rockwell, he worked on a number of advanced concepts, including solar power satellites, launch and orbit transfer systems, space tethers, and lunar resource utilization. He has been cited as an expert in space transportation by the (now defunct ...
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