..Citizens for Space Based Solar Power....Letter to Obama

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Citizens for Space Based Solar Power
Learn about SBSP and help get the word out.
http://c-sbsp.org/


Letter to Senator Obama (from their website)

"I would offer a clean, sustainable and scalable solution with
great potential known as space-based solar power. Large arrays
of solar panels would be put in geosynchronous orbit to collect
intense solar energy 24 hours a day, seven days a week. This
energy would be transported to the surface of the planet in the
form of low intensity microwave beams, where it would be
collected by rectifying antennas (rectennas), converted to electricity
and channeled directly into the existing power distribution grid.
Once in place, the input energy required is practically nothing
compared to the steady stream of clean, renewable and
scalable energy output. My website, Citizens for Space
Based Solar Power (c-sbsp.org), has a good amount of
information on this technology and links to many other great
resources and groups."

"The National Security Space Office published an updated
report on the feasibility of this technology in October of 2007. "
http://c-sbsp.org/2008/06/17/letter-to-senator-obama/


National Security Space Office

Space-Based Solar Power
As an Opportunity for Strategic Security
Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study

"For the DoD specifically, beamed energy from space in quantities
greater than 5 MWe has the potential to be a disruptive game changer
on the battlefield. SBSP and its enabling wireless power transmission
technology could facilitate extremely flexible "energy on demand" for
combat units and installations across an entire theater, while significantly
reducing dependence on vulnerable over-land fuel deliveries. SBSP
could also enable entirely new force structures and capabilities such
as ultra long-endurance airborne or terrestrial surveillance or combat
systems to include the individual soldier himself. More routinely, SBSP
could provide the ability to deliver rapid and sustainable
humanitarian energy to a disaster area or to a local population
undergoing nation-building activities. SBSP could also facilitate base
"islanding" such that each installation has the ability to operate
independent of vulnerable ground-based energy delivery infrastructures.
In addition to helping American and allied defense establishments remain
relevant over the entire 21st Century through more secure supply lines,
perhaps the greatest military benefit of SBSP is to lessen the chances
of conflict due to energy scarcity by providing access to a strategically
secure energy supply."

"Considering the development timescales that are involved, and the
exponential growth of population and resource pressures within that
same strategic period, it is imperative that this work for "drilling up" vs.
drilling down for energy security begins immediately."

http://www.space-frontier.org/Presen...sesment0.1.pdf




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