The Case For Space Solar Power
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Author | : John Mankins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780991337019 |
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This book makes the case for Space Solar Power; recounting the history of this fascinating concept and summarizing the many different ways in which it might be accomplished. The book describes in detail a highly promising concept - SPS-ALPHA (Solar Power Satellite by means of Arbitrarily Large Phased Array) - and presents a business case comprising applications in space and markets on Earth. The book explains how it is possible to begin now with technologies that are already at hand, while developing the more advanced technologies that will be needed to deliver power economically to markets on Earth. The Case for Space Solar Power concludes by laying out a path forward that is both achievable and affordable: within a dozen years or less, the first multi-megawatt pilot plant could be in operation. Getting started could cost less than $10 million over the first 2 years, less than $100 million over the next half dozen years. Given that space solar power would transform our future in space, and might provide a new source of virtually limitless and sustainable energy to markets across the world, the book poses the question, "Why wouldn't we pursue space solar power?"
Author | : Robert Zubrin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1633885348 |
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"A new space race has begun. But the rivals in this case are not superpowers but competing entrepreneurs. These daring pioneers are creating a revolution in spaceflight that promises to transform the near future. Astronautical engineer Robert Zubrin spells out the potential of these new developments in an engrossing narrative that is visionary yet grounded by a deep understanding of the practical challenges. Fueled by the combined expertise of the old aerospace industry and the talents of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, spaceflight is becoming cheaper. The new generation of space explorers has already achieved a major breakthrough by creating reusable rockets. Zubrin foresees more rapid innovation, including global travel from any point on Earth to another in an hour or less; orbital hotels; moon bases with incredible space observatories; human settlements on Mars, the asteroids, and the moons of the outer planets; and then, breaking all limits, pushing onward to the stars."--Publisher's website.
Author | : Don M. Flournoy |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1461420008 |
Download Solar Power Satellites Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Communication satellites are a $144 billion industry. Is there any space-based industry that could possibly beat that market? 'Solar Power Satellites' shows why and how the space satellite industry will soon begin expanding its market from relaying signals to Earth to generating energy in space and delivering it to the ground as electricity. In all industrialized nations, energy demand is growing exponentially. In the developing world, the need for energy is as basic as food and water. The Sun's energy is available everywhere, and it is non-polluting. As business plans demonstrate its technical feasibility, commercial potential, and environmental acceptability, every country on Earth will look to space for the power it needs.
Author | : Namrata Goswami |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1498583121 |
Download Scramble for the Skies Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
With a focus on China, the United States, and India, this book examines the economic ambitions of the second space race. The authors argue that space ambitions are informed by a combination of factors, including available resources, capability, elite preferences, and talent pool. The authors demonstrate how these influences affect the development of national space programs as well as policy and law.
Author | : Joseph N. Pelton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2016-11-04 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 3319392735 |
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This book captures the most exciting advances in the harnessing of space as a global resource. The authors track the growing number of space businesses and opportunities for investors, and the many possible benefits of spaceplanes, space stations and even space colonies. The authors also discuss the need for more regulatory reform. Companies like Planetary Resources are now forming to find mineral-rich asteroids and bring back new riches to Earth. Solar power satellites in the next few years will start to beam clean energy back to Earth, to meet the growing demands of a still-developing world. Innovative space industries are vital to the survival of modern human life, and the authors demonstrate what can be done to encourage the growing of the "New Space" frontier. From lassoing and then mining asteroids to developing new methods of defending the planet from space hazards and setting up new hotels and adventures for tourists in space, this new industry will have profound effects on Earth, especially on its economy. This book is based on a study of international experts commissioned ahead of the UNISPACE+50 meeting, having distilled the results of this comprehensive fact-finding process into a compact and very readable form. It can serve as an excellent starting point for understanding all the activities underway or planned to make space truly our next frontier.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 2001-10-30 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0309170400 |
Download Laying the Foundation for Space Solar Power Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In March 2000, NASA's Office of Space Flight asked the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council to perform an independent assessment of the space solar power program's technology investment strategy to determine its technical soundness and its contribution to the roadmap that NASA has developed for this program. The program's investment strategy was to be evaluated in the context of its likely effectiveness in meeting the program's technical and economic objectives.
Author | : Ralph Nansen |
Publisher | : Collector's Guide Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Power resources |
ISBN | : 9781926592060 |
Download Energy Crisis Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Our troubled world -- The energy eras -- Solar power satellites begin -- Our energy situation today -- Global warming -- The solution -- The fourth energy era -- A development plan -- What others think -- What is next? -- Stopping energy wars -- Bring energy to the entire world -- The plugged in Earth -- Satellite technology today -- Our future.
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : |
Download Technical Feasibility of Space Solar Power Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Author | : John Perlin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780674010130 |
Download From Space to Earth Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
From Space to Earth tracks the evolution of the technology of photovoltaics, the use of solar cells to convert the sun's energy into electricity. John Perlin's painstaking research results in a fascinating account of the development of this technology, from its shaky nineteenth-century beginnings mired in scientific controversy to its high-visibility success in the space program, to its current position as a versatile and promising power source.
Author | : John A. Eddy |
Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780160838088 |
Download The Sun, the Earth, and Near-earth Space Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
" ... Concise explanations and descriptions - easily read and readily understood - of what we know of the chain of events and processes that connect the Sun to the Earth, with special emphasis on space weather and Sun-Climate."--Dear Reader.