Space Based Solar Power Within a Decade?

Nancy Atkinson writes "A new company, Space Energy, Inc., says they have developed what they call a 'rock-solid business platform' and they should be able to provide commercially available space based solar power within a decade. 'Although it's a very grandiose vision, it makes total sense,' Space Energy's Peter Sage told Universe Today. 'We're focused on the fact that this is an inevitable technology and someone is going to do it. Right now we're the best shot. We're also focused on the fact that, according to every scenario we've analyzed, the world needs space based solar power, and it needs it soon, as well as the up-scaling of just about every other source of renewable energy that we can get our hands on.'"

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Re:Green

[shmlco]

"Yeah, because Greenpeace wants you to burn petrol and coal so much."

Actually, they don't want us to burn oil or gas or coal. Nor do they want us to use nuclear power, dam rivers, disrupt offshore ecologies with tidal power systems, dig for geothermal, or even errect bird-slaughtering wind turbines.

I often think that Greenpeace would prefer that we humans died off and left the planet to nature...