NASA DVD: Space Solar Power: Exploring New Frontiers for Tomorrow’s Energy Needs

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Evaluating Alternative Sources of Energy: Solar Energy from Space, talk by Paul Jaffe

The Path Forward

Solar power Satellites are technically possible, but the technology is not proven and sitting on the shelf. Significant technical challenges must be overcome if these visionary systems are to be realized. Three steps are necessary for real progress to be made toward the vision of solar energy from space. Rigorous, end-to-end systems analysis studies are […]

Space Solar Power in TED

SSP Technological and Engineering Challenges

Low-Cost Access to Space. Intelligent Modular Systems. Lightweight Systems. Safe and Efficient Wireless Power Transmission(WPT). High-Efficiency/Low-Mass Solar Power Generation. High-Temperature/High-Efficiency Electronics Efficient and Low-Cost Waste-Heat Removal.

Review of Book The case for Space Solar Power

The Promise: Reliable and affordable energy is fundamental to our global society. It is only through the availability of vast amounts of cheap energy – largely from fossil fuels – that the world’s population grew from less than 1 billion in 1800 to more than 7 billion in 2013. Most of that energy is used […]