Space Solar Power Institute -- Clean Baseload Energy

Space Solar Power Institute -- Clean Baseload Energy
SSP is a simple idea (pictured above). By collecting
the sun's energy in high orbit, almost ten times as
much energy per panel - reliable, low-CO2
energy(graph right) can be collected.
Rising
energy costs slow the economy through higher food,
transportation and goods costs. Growing global demand
for energy to keep our world running results in a
heavier environmental footprint, as we are forced to
environmentally and financially more challenging
fossil fuels. Transitioning energy production directly
to the sun is the best way to cleanly repower planet
Earth. We must add Space Solar Power (SSP), our best
energy alternative, to our energy mix.
Preliminary

WPT Program here
For
many years, volunteers such as the SSP
Institute's
SSP Workshop
at Ga Tech have been studying and doing
presentations on many of SSP's key
technologies and the energy transformation we
must facilitate
. We are most
fortunate to add Gail Tverberg to our roster
as Director of Energy Economics.  Check
out her blog at
OurFiniteWorld.com
Check out
Ga

Tech's 2013 Senior Capstone Design Expo !
April 25, 2013
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Presentations

from the Wireless Power Transfer Workshop
at IEEE WISEE
, (in Baltimore,
November
2013)
Ga

Tech's ECE6390
satellite design
class

project required each team to design a Space
Solar Power System
Funds from the friends
and family of Bill Brown endowed and awarded the first
William C. Brown Fellowship in MPT.  Ga Tech's
ECE Dept. awarded the
first

William C. Brown Fellowship (Fall 2013)
We would like to
increase the Fellowship's endowment
Donna Salisbury, Bill
Brown's eldest daughter
(far left),
was joined by sister
Beth, Darel Preble(Space Solar Power Institute), Dr.
John M. Osepchuk, a distinguished engineer who gave
the keynote address,
Blake Marshall ( the
inaugural recipient), Prof. Durgin and sister
Barbara.
John was hired by
Bill Brown and served as the Microwave
Power Journal's first editor.
Further history can be found on the
Bill

Brown Memorial webpage.
Blake Marshall also
then led four undergraduate students in researching
"Adaptive Impedance Matching for 5.8 GHz Energy
Harvesting Circuitry", f
unded

by Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
(CHOA).  Undergraduate microwave
harvesting teams took home two of the three
prizes in the 2014 Opportunity Research
Scholar's Competition.)
Wireless Power Transfer would gently beam SSP's
power to large, nearly transparent antennas that
would collect it on the ground, which could support
growing crops underneath. We have thousands of
satellites in orbit now - so we understand most of
the technology.
Japan's USEF consortium has
a $2 Trillion yen project to build a prototype
SSP satellite by 2025.
The best pathway to initiating SSP construction is a
public/private corporation chartered by
Congress.  Sunsat Corp would be modeled on Comsat
Corp, a previous public/private corporation, chartered
by Congress in 1962. Comsat created our very
successful global communications satellite industry.
Sunsat would create a power satellite industry.
Join
us in
helping to fund our educational and technical efforts
and to introduce this clean reliable
giant
among

energy alternatives, by plugging directly into our Sun
- that clean reliable nuclear power plant 92 million
miles away.
Sign up for our newsletter,
donate to this work, get plugged-in. Learn about
the Sunsat Act and the energy transformation we
need!
Help
make a
real
difference as we rebuild our
energy and economy by moving energy production off
earth to the High Frontier.
- Write your Congressman to charter
a Sunsat Corp!
Educate
the Energy experts that have never heard of SSP !!
SSP has
Low CO2
Emissions
Two

new
donation

options
to honor
Bill Brown, father of
Microwave Power
Transfer
SSP
overview, 79 min video,
Ga

Tech's ECE6390
class

project will design an SSP System
).
SkyWalker builds a
SunSat -video