Space Canada Promotes Solar Energy From Space
This video on solar energy from space, directed and narrated by CBC science adviser Bob McDonald, was presented for the first time to students from the Ontario Science Centre Science School and special guests including representatives of SPACE Canadas corporate and academic sponsoring organizations.
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Where would we get the money? Canadian tires card LOL.
(continuing). A presentation on Japanese status of space solar power was just made. Japan is now the first nation in the world to make it official policy to evaluate space-based solar power to solve energy and environment needs; the policy has been approved by the Prime Minister. The Japanese space agency JAXA is to come up with a plan to test and evaluate the concept. Whereas inside NASA (where I work) people are, literally, afraid to bring up the subject.
(continuing) While the U.S. invented the concept of space based solar power, and conducted the initial studies….we are clearly losing the lead - in yet another subject area -not out of conscious deliberate decision, but out of laziness, lack of vision….and lack of courage.
As I type this I am at the Space Solar Power Panel at the International Space Development Conference (this year, being held in Orlando, Florida). The panel is excellent, as is the audience participation. Canada just presented this video here and got loud applause. There have been several hours of presentations and discussions on this subject at this Conference and it has surprised me how far the field has come in the last few years, in terms of ‘reality’ - if someone would take the lead.
High power laser transmission? Isn’t that dangerous? Especially hanging around the atmosphere…
maybe i should go to this thing..
The world needs this kind of innovation and forward thinking to solve it’s energy needs, needs that will only continue to escalate!