Space Solar Power Panel
Amaresh Kollipara (moderator) – Co-founder & Managing Partner, Earth2Orbit LLC
Joe Carroll – Tether Applications, Inc
Taylor Dinerman – Writer and weekly syndicated columnist
Dr. Feng Hsu - Senior Vice President, Space Energy
Thomas Olson – Exodus Consulting Group
NOTES BY JIM KERAVALA
– Electricity demand doubling
– China number 1 explorer of natural resources
– India and Africa are growth areas for energy consumption
– Bypass fossil conversion inefficiency
– Trillions of dollars of private capital sitting around not being invested at the moment
– New materials such as carbon nanotubes, bimorph structures, etc. are going to reduce launch costs and space structure costs
– niche markets
– Pacifica 44c/kw hour
– DOD over $1/kw hour
– Are these big enough niche markets?
– Denmark going green
– Space elevator power could be beamed down as well as beamed up
– Private financing will be there to some extent
– Demonstrator projects are interesting possibilities
– Maybe use a Bigelow module for demonstration
– Terrestrial-based beaming experiments on a much larger scale
– Next step: space-based demonstrator using a very large antenna and getting the antenna
– Getting the technology right will unlock a large amount of private investment
– Following that there will be new models and new competition such as the Soleron project
– Decentralized power availability might change global property values
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