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Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space
Posted on Sunday, October 14, 2007 @ 23:18:58 UTC by vlad

Devices by Dan Cho, Washington, DC/ 11 October 2007/ NewScientist.com news service

A futuristic scheme to collect solar energy on satellites and beam it to Earth has gained a large supporter in the US military. A report released yesterday by the National Security Space Office recommends that the US government sponsor projects to demonstrate solar-power-generating satellites and provide financial incentives for further private development of the technology.



Space-based solar power would use kilometre-sized solar panel arrays to gather sunlight in orbit. It would then beam power down to Earth in the form of microwaves or a laser, which would be collected in antennas on the ground and then converted to electricity. Unlike solar panels based on the ground, solar power satellites placed in geostationary orbit above the Earth could operate at night and during cloudy conditions.

"We think we can be a catalyst to make this technology advance," said US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel Paul Damphousse of the NSSO at a press conference yesterday in Washington, DC, US.

The NSSO report (pdf) recommends that the US government spend $10 billion over the next 10 years to build a test satellite capable of beaming 10 megawatts of electric power down to Earth.

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Re: Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space (Score: 1)
by malc on Monday, October 15, 2007 @ 00:26:07 UTC
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This is madness. We have global warming due to the earth not radiating away all the excess energy from the sun......so why not make use of that? Secondly we have vast areas of desert, much larger than any space array will be, so why not cover them with those very same collectors?  The amount of money you save from siting them on land (billions) can be used to build more land based arrays.

The space based proposal is dumb beyond belief, however it would employ a lot of people (friends of government) for many many years.



Re: Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space (Score: 1)
by deatopmg on Wednesday, October 17, 2007 @ 07:29:51 UTC
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NOTHING NEW HERE, for those old enough to remember the schemes of the '70's and 80's.  To put things into perspective, if I remember correctly, microwave transmission of power could be done at ~60% efficiency and assuming 25% solar to electrical conversion, a 1 km dia collector could beam down ~150 megaWatts to a floating collector off shore.  And that could be available substantially longer than the sunlight in the southwest.  I'll leave it up to the readers to calculate the area of desert that would have to be paved to generate the equivalent MW/hrs

Note: When paving the desert with solar collectors we would be destroying that environment.  I doubt that any meaningful plans to do so would pass an environmental impact study.

as a species, we appear to have gotten ourselves stuck between 2 bar stools.



 

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