Space Based Solar Power – Alternative Energy Solution

u wana know what i think?? Well i thinkn that all of thiz stuff iz suposed 2 happen i mean wat if itz our time?? :*( If it iz thrn the worlds cycle will just continue after we are all dead and then start from scratch NOT by god but by nature and bactiera and many other thind!!!! i just hope that diz world ( especually america) will see what they r doing ?

omg watching thiz video made me realize that ower gov iznt doing anything about it and it gives me hope 4 the future

OBAMA omg i just had 2 do that but i really did pour my heart out into thiz comment

OK It seems I can't reply to replys so here is my comment for this clip… brilliant idea.

Peeps on Earth R complaining that cheap solar solutions can't track the sun… OK prob eliminated… Yes Power can be transmitted!
The point is finding 'pollution free' solutions people… and this looks like one!
But! I also believe it can be done on Earth too!

So well said (Gee I hope this comment goes where it's supposed to go this time!)

Just like Tesla suggested… Brilliant Idea!

Yes I know.

Obama's National Space Council should review SSP in short order, so that an announcement can be made by spring 2009. NASA, DOE, and DOD have already reviewed. The announcement itself is the mother duck behind which all others align. More tests? Sure. Do all the tests and demos you want. I suggest we need to fire up a helluva more than a single light bulb from space to show SSP's onions.

Saddly america is in so much debt at the momment i doubt even the president can help
This would require every country every person on this planet chipping in to help

This idea (SSP) overhauls civilization and overrides the perfect storm of global crises that brews and stews us at this time. It is the solution to policy decisions in energy, economics, space, enviroment, education, security, technology, and conflict mitigation. It gives the economies of the world something to do together and gives rising nations a leg up towards their development. SSP requires a singular man to make it happen. That man is the President of the United States.

i will doubt this idea will ever happen in the current global crisis that is going on at the momment

mm. Looks cool. Though I have my doubts about the figures cited at the beginning of the clip. The potential of geothermal energy alone is breathtaking. Maybe if the population continues to expand at an exponential rate from now until 2100 some of those predictions will come true, but that is unlikely to happen unless we solve the energy crisis first.

when i said about the population i was responding to an idiot who talked about killing 90% of the population i would never suggest that idea and tottaly support this idea

I was just going to ask the same thing, how we get the energy to use, but since they already know a way, well, its a very viable solution to a problem everyone knows is going to happen.
1 last question, whats the song? Love the womans voice.

the tests have been done, there's no harm to the ozone layer, all other kinks are being worked on as we speak, and besides, every single breakthrough technology in history came with its dangers, but the benefits crush them like the fat lady sitting on an ant

From the comments here, looks like education is a never ending struggle. SSP is a 40-year old story, and brainwashed minds don't get it. Let's put a pro-education, pro-empirical science Administration back in the pilot seat.

Yeah kill 90% of the population how about we start with you?

Man, I really wish people would do the follow up research suggested at the end of the video…

The power is beamed down via microwaves and picked up by receivers on Earth. No, this is not a joke, it's a very real proposal for energy.

I thought this was a joke.

sure, you can generate energy in space via solar power.
but how do you transfer the power the few hundred kilometers down to earth where we need it?
oh i know lets just move into space, pfft. or lets get some few hundred kilometer chord which connects the solar plants in space to connect to earth while in orbit

Lets release some virus, Or some war 'over' the resources to half the world population. that will lower the worlds demand for electricity:P

Microwaves don't cause cancer, and at 2.5 GHz they don't even ionize air (operating frequency of SSP).

The numbers in the video assume that by 2100 Americans will be using a third of the power they are using now. The point is, we need energy, and lots of it, no matter how well behaved we are.

Maybe I'm wrong but I thought microwaves caused a certain type of cancer? Brain Cancer?

Also, when you speak of not having people change their energy consumption habits, but at the same time the ideal really is to change the current habit of oil consumption.
In the end it is about changing human habits.
Why not just train people to use less energy to begin with? To practice self-control?

I do hope humanity finds better sources of energy, clean energy. For all our sakes.

Free? I doubt anyone will ever be desperate enough to do this for free.

it will cost a lot…
this projects must be free…

wow, i am glad or generation is starting the push into the future, drill up. I see people everyday wanting to contribute to something more meaning full than just slavig at work and paying taxes, it is time that we take the biggest step forward and make the big moves to save or planet and protect it for our children and theres until we are able to use enery to its most efficent capacity where just a little gets us a lot. $700b would be a great start to real energy and prosperity

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My take: If there were a reactor with which we're comfortable that's already online and transmitting 10,000 times the amount of energy being consumed, and we had ONE SHOT to access permanent energy for all future needs, put your money on SBSP. Put your machines on the moon for cost savings. Put the Starchild and his siblings in orbit to own it (revisit that movie). Coordinate your energy, space, security, environmental, and education policies to do this and change the world by multiplying it.