Comments for Citizens for Space Based Solar Power http://c-sbsp.org Learn about SBSP and help get the word out. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:13:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on NASA’s New Goal Should Be Space Based Solar Power by Rob Mahan http://c-sbsp.org/2011/07/13/nasas-new-goal-should-be-space-based-solar-power/#comment-7555 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:13:27 +0000 http://c-sbsp.org/?p=178#comment-7555 Good points and appropriate questions, Alex.

Expecting decisive action from politicians on anything of importance these days seems a bit too much to wish for. My opinion is that the U.S. Government should use taxpayer dollars to do at least some of the preliminary research to prove that space-based solar power is a viable endeavor. The U.S. Government should also spend some of our hard-earned money creating an environment to encourage private-sector development and deployment of space-based solar power. The precedents for such public-private efforts I see cited most often are the Pacific Railroad Act of 1862 and the Communications Satellite Act of 1962. Let’s hope we don’t have to wait until 2062 to see a SunSat Act (as outlined by the Space Solar Power Workshop at Georgia Tech) passed.

As for ideas on a path or paths forward, if you haven’t read it already, you might find the recent IAA report, The First International Assessment of Space Solar Power:Opportunities, Issues and Potential Pathways Forward, of interest.

Thanks for taking time to enter the discussion about space-based solar power here.

]]> Comment on Feedback and Discussion by Alex Shenderov http://c-sbsp.org/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7548 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 16:36:20 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7548 Do you seriously suggest that distribution of hydrogen is easier than of electricity???

]]> Comment on NASA’s New Goal Should Be Space Based Solar Power by Alex Shenderov http://c-sbsp.org/2011/07/13/nasas-new-goal-should-be-space-based-solar-power/#comment-7539 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 22:20:55 +0000 http://c-sbsp.org/?p=178#comment-7539 Demanding decisive action from politicians at this stage seems neither realistic nor fair. There is no organization capable of taking on a project of this magnitude, or of executing it. And it’s real hard to put one together, too. The enthusiasts of both SBSP and non-rocket launch technologies (which are hardly viable without each other) are independent thinkers with natural aversion to management, bureaucracy, and the kind of massive organization one needs to pull this off. I’d love to see at least some attention paid to the practical management aspects of the SBSP approach, for without a path forward, it will always remain no more than an elegant mental exercise. Who are the politicians supposed to fund to develop SBSP? Is it going to be public or private? Who is going to own what? Who is going to manage what?

]]> Comment on Feedback and Discussion by johnpnts http://c-sbsp.org/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7478 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:17:50 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7478 A worldwide effort must be undertaken to use the fantastic energy of our sun to produce our electricity. We will encircle the earth with solar power stations that will collect and beam power via microwave to stations located on the world’s oceans. There, the concentrated beams will be received as electricity and through electrolysis will produce pure hydrogen. The hydrogen will be bottled and shipped to the land, perhaps in old oil tankers. People will use this free hydrogen to fuel their homes, vehicles and businesses, eliminating the need for a power grid.

]]> Comment on Feedback and Discussion by johnpnts http://c-sbsp.org/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7477 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:15:15 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7477 Awaken and Rise
Cease, for a moment, in all your works, all you men and women of Earth. Mark your name upon this foundation, the New Age of Humanity! Affirm and make known to all your commitment to a world that has abundant and free clean energy, air, food, and water. A world able to use its wisdom to provide these necessary elements for life. A world where money does not equal worth. A world committed to equality, individual liberties, and a population allowed to find meaning and happiness in life.
Humankind has become enslaved by war, toil, poverty, and the rule of despots, the rich, and the influential.
The workers, the poor, the forgotten, the common, and the dreamers of a better world must awaken and rise up to speak with one righteous and mighty voice for peace, justice, equality, and life itself!
Awaken and Rise, all you who would show compassion and understanding to your fellow human beings. Awaken and Rise, all you who feel a change in your heart. Awaken and Rise, all who feel the burden of a world gone wrong, a people heading for extinction, a planet beginning to die.
Awaken and Rise!
Shake off the shackles that hold your heart. Sign this petition for the survival of humanity. Read and question the manifesto” Free Energy Now, the Ultimate Human Right”. In this document you will find a path to follow and a plan for a sustainable world in which war and poverty are unknown and free clean energy for life is humanity’s gift to her people. Link to the site http://www.johnpnts.wordpress.com and share this idea and plan for humanity with your friends. Remember that you are one with humanity. Our responsibility in this time of turmoil and environmental crisis has never been greater.
Awaken and Rise

]]> Comment on Get the Word Out by John Pontious http://c-sbsp.org/get-the-word-out/#comment-7320 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:52:27 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/contact-information/#comment-7320 What must End, What must Begin

War must end. Competition must end. Waste must end.
Peace must begin. Cooperation must begin. Bounty must begin.
Individual exploration must begin. Colonization of space must begin.
Capitalism must end. Poverty must end. Greed must end.
Selflessness must begin. Equality must begin. Compassion must begin.
Being rich must end. Being poor must end. Premature death must end.
Clean free energy must begin. Naturalism must begin.
Life must begin, again.

John Pontious 8/21/2011
http://www.johnpnts.wordpress.com

]]> Comment on Get the Word Out by John Pontious http://c-sbsp.org/get-the-word-out/#comment-7319 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 02:48:32 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/contact-information/#comment-7319 Awaken and Rise
Cease, for a moment, in all your works, all you men and women of Earth. Mark your name upon this foundation, the New Age of Humanity! Affirm and make known to all your commitment to a world that has abundant and free clean energy, air, food, and water. A world able to use its wisdom to provide these necessary elements for life. A world where money does not equal worth. A world committed to equality, individual liberties, and a population allowed to find meaning and happiness in life.
Humankind has become enslaved by war, toil, poverty, and the rule of despots, the rich, and the influential.
The workers, the poor, the forgotten, the common, and the dreamers of a better world must awaken and rise up to speak with one righteous and mighty voice for peace, justice, equality, and life itself!
Awaken and Rise, all you who would show compassion and understanding to your fellow human beings. Awaken and Rise, all you who feel a change in your heart. Awaken and Rise, all who feel the burden of a world gone wrong, a people heading for extinction, a planet beginning to die.
Awaken and Rise!
Shake off the shackles that hold your heart. Sign this petition for the survival of humanity. Read and question the manifesto” Free Energy Now, the Ultimate Human Right”. In this document you will find a path to follow and a plan for a sustainable world in which war and poverty are unknown and free clean energy for life is humanity’s gift to her people. Link to the site http://www.johnpnts.wordpress.com and share this idea and plan for humanity with your friends. Remember that you are one with humanity. Our responsibility in this time of turmoil and environmental crisis has never been greater.
Awaken and Rise

]]> Comment on Feedback and Discussion by Rob Mahan http://c-sbsp.org/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7277 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:41:36 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7277 Thanks, Robert. I hope the new look is a bit more readable, too. A NSS board member, Lt Col Peter Garretson, left a comment for me with a heads-up about the upcoming presentation of the IAA report. I was humbled that he was reading Citizens for Space Based Power.

]]> Comment on Feedback and Discussion by Robert Sugg http://c-sbsp.org/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7276 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:09:51 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/feedback-and-discussion/#comment-7276 Nice new look to the site Rob. I think you were ahead of the pack on the IAA report.

]]> Comment on Starter Messages by Rob Mahan Books http://c-sbsp.org/starter-messages/#comment-6974 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:06:38 +0000 http://citizensforspacebasedsolarpower.wordpress.com/starter-messages/#comment-6974 The Goals and Starter Messages were written in 2008 and admittedly need to be updated. Thanks for your interest in space-based solar power.

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