Location
Cocoa Beach
Start Date
27-4-2007 4:30 PM
Description
Worldwide wholesale electricity sales now total $2 trillion each year. That’s several orders of magnitude higher than communications satellites. Electricity sales will grow to $10 trillion by 2050, but the industry is under tremendous environmental pressure.
For 40 years, NASA-designed solar power satellites have been proposed as the ultimate, worldwide energy source. Orbiting at 23.000 miles these mile-wide sheets of solar cells could deliver clean energy 24/7 to any location on Earth via safe, very weak microwave beams.
Based on the manufacturing cost of mass-produced solar sat components alone, this energy should be competitively priced. But launching those components to this orbit increases those costs 10-fold.
The Space Island Group, inc. will virtually eliminate those launch costs by leaving the fuel tanks and cargo pods of their shuttle-derived launchers in orbit when empty, converting their interiors onto living quarters, labs and factories, then leasing them to a wide range of non-energy clients. They are now negotiating a $200 billion, 15-year energy contract with the governments of India and China.
This portion of the panel will present an overview of their cost/revenues and station tenant base. It will also outline the dramatic economic effect these very high volume, Florida-launched vehicles will have on the region, including industries built around the new space-made materials that will be brought back.
Speaker on Eliminating the Prohibitive Launch Costs of Solar Power Satellites
Cocoa Beach
Worldwide wholesale electricity sales now total $2 trillion each year. That’s several orders of magnitude higher than communications satellites. Electricity sales will grow to $10 trillion by 2050, but the industry is under tremendous environmental pressure.
For 40 years, NASA-designed solar power satellites have been proposed as the ultimate, worldwide energy source. Orbiting at 23.000 miles these mile-wide sheets of solar cells could deliver clean energy 24/7 to any location on Earth via safe, very weak microwave beams.
Based on the manufacturing cost of mass-produced solar sat components alone, this energy should be competitively priced. But launching those components to this orbit increases those costs 10-fold.
The Space Island Group, inc. will virtually eliminate those launch costs by leaving the fuel tanks and cargo pods of their shuttle-derived launchers in orbit when empty, converting their interiors onto living quarters, labs and factories, then leasing them to a wide range of non-energy clients. They are now negotiating a $200 billion, 15-year energy contract with the governments of India and China.
This portion of the panel will present an overview of their cost/revenues and station tenant base. It will also outline the dramatic economic effect these very high volume, Florida-launched vehicles will have on the region, including industries built around the new space-made materials that will be brought back.
