Financial and Organizational Analysis for a Space Solar Power System

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From the NSS blog:

Financial and Organizational Analysis for a Space Solar Power System

A ground-breaking new paper on space solar power has just been added to the online NSS Space Solar Power Library. The paper is: “Financial and Organizational Analysis for a Space Solar Power System,” May 18, 2009, 225 pages, 3.7 MB PDF.

Lt. Col. Peter Garretson, NSS Director and one of the principal authors of the Department of Defense report Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security writes:

“This is the first modern paper to include a stakeholder analysis, an in-depth discussion of international organizational aspects (including intellectual property and separation of manufacture and operator companies), and Net Present Value calculations of niche systems (such as front-line military power).”

Authors of the paper are Sun Xin, IT Director of the China Academy of Space and Technology; Evelyn Panier, Finance Application Consultant; Cornelius Zund, Control Systems Engineer at Pratt & Whitney Canada; and Raul Gutierrez Gomez, Lieutenant Colonel in the Colombian Air Force and Planning Director of Military Aeronautical Institute.

The paper was a multicultural team project submitted in partial fulfillment for the degree of Master of Business Administration in Aerospace Management at Toulouse Business School, Toulouse, France.

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1. Tesla conceived wireless power transmission more than a century ago.

The problem is that anything in the transmission pathway gets instantly sizzled into crispy ash.

[OKIsItJustMe]

2. I do tire of this meme

In the first place, Tesla did more than conceive of the wireless transmission of power, he succeeded in demonstrating it (at small scale.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_energy_transfer#History_of_wireless_energy_transfer

NASA's been experimenting with wireless power transmission for decades:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O44WM1Q9H8
http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1210/1

In the second place, wireless power transmission does not burn "anything in (its path) to 'crispy ash.'"
http://www.spaceenergy.com/s/Safety.asp

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4. Has this law been repealed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_law_of_thermodynamics

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5. Thanks for kicking my thread! nt

[OKIsItJustMe]

6. No, it's just irrelevant

Your concern about the wireless transmission of power is that you'd be dealing with some sort of "death ray." Right?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_solar_power#Safety

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The use of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_power_transmission">microwave transmission of power has been the most controversial issue in considering any SPS design, but any thought that anything which strays into the beam's path will be incinerated is an extreme misconception. Consider that quite similar microwave relay beams have long been in use by telecommunications companies world wide without such problems.

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The beam's most intense section (more or less, at its center) is far below dangerous levels even for an exposure which is prolonged indefinitely. …

The microwave beam intensity at ground level in the center of the beam would be designed and physically built into the system; simply, the transmitter would be too far away and too small to be able to increase the intensity to unsafe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_ray">death ray levels, even in principle.

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3. Much better use of scarce dollars than Mars or moon exploration. Those can wait.