Mark,

I liked Werbos' response to the article as well.

You all know I forward this Thin Film Solar Cell manufacturing as key to SBSP
feasiblity. Manufacturing Thin Film Solar Cells at GW scale Dual Use Space and
Terrestrial Manufacturing in New Mexico can have immediate effect in reduced
consumer energy costs starting with Zero Electric Bill from Zero Consumer Cost
Rooftop Solar Modules.

California can instantly purchase forward solar electrical energy contracts from
New Mexico at 10 cents a Watt, from New Mexico consumer rooftop solar modules,
for as long as they would care to sign. Utah can sell it's lower cost energy by
the same transmission systems we sell the solar. 40 Trillion BTU in avoided cost
loss for electrical transmission systems energy losses (EIA figures) for New
Mexico from the first day of GW production, 28 Trillion BTU (60% of 40 T BTU
less 40% transmission loss) of avoided cost energy for California, with addition
solar energy sales from 1.6TW of rooftop solar and 1.7TW of SBSP solar (100MW
start up SBSP)... and onwards from there.

Likely any solar manufacturing will grow by at least 25% per year but, staying
at 1 GW production alone earns $92B profits in 10 years using Space and
Terrestrial Solar as 2 sides of the same Solar Energy Coin. If we treat Space
and Terrestrial solar cells as the same Solar Energy Coin we win on the ground
and close the business case for SBSP from the start.

While NASA spends $Billions on R&D and exploration, the Space Shuttle nor Ares
can be considered R&D in any form after such long use of these designs. It is
likely that a better use of these SS launchers is a a component of a Solar Power
Public Utility that is mandated to earn 12% profit as would any other public
utility Working in this way SBSP is actually earning additional R&D funding to
Congressional Space appropriations which will be dramatically depleted by the
retirement of Space Shuttle and economic impact associated with the loss of
these jobs..

Much like the outline for the SunSat Corporation, the Space Solar Power Public
Utility with NASA as a partner can both stimulate the space markets and help
them to grow. SBSP will not cost 100 of $Billions as stated in that article. It
will earn profits at each step of components development, R&D and manufacturing
infrastructure funding and development. It must earn these profits, in interest
or many, the consumers and true owners of these SBSP systems. 12% profits to
maintain systems and to add to these systems as needed in the future.

If you pay attention we are showing you how this is done. Keep up pushing for
Sun Sat Corporation. Welsom Consortium will encourage those interested in saving
space Shuttle Launcher jobs (sans Orbiter) to support it's use for the first
primary SBSP payload system.

By 2017 we will have begun work on a RLV that can be deployed by 2024-2026 with
less than $20 per pound to LEO launch cost.
We will build this at a profits from contract sales of this article as the next
Generation Space Launcher and Commercial Air Transport.with lower operational
cost per passenger mile than todays jumbo jets.

You just can't beat physics, aerodynamics and the transportation market place
when it come to planning, implementing and maintaining such RLV design,
manufacture, sales and maintenance. The most expedient benefits in Space
provide the most immediate benefit on the ground to the common man. That is what
innovation is all about. It is after we have several 2 GW of solar in space that
the Low Cost RLV and Civilian Commercial Transport becomes most useful as a cash
earning enter prize.

Energy cost decrease is on the primary agenda, 30,000 new jobs in New Mexico is
on the primary agenda, Zero Carbon Energy systems at cost parity are on the
primary agenda, decreasing cost for energy hungry zero emission recovery of
Canadian Sand and US Shale Oil bring gas back to $1 per gallon is on the primary
agenda.

The secondary agenda is development of WPT end user products that also save
massive mounts of fossil fuel energy with the fortunate $1Trillion per year
market for these end user devices and new jobs. WPT Hybrids that use no gas or
plug in recharge in metropolitan beam down areas. Home WPT units that beam to
our household appliances.

Make SunSat Corporation a reality. We lead the conversion from Centralized
Fossil Fuel Economy to Distributed Solar Ecomomy for all of the right reasons
and in the interest of all mankind.

Keep up the very good work,

Kevin

Welsom Space Power "The Race is On!"









----- Original Message ----
From: markreiff <no_reply@yahoogroups.com>
To: solarpowersatelliteplace@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:45:40 AM
Subject: [Solar Power Satellite Place] Harvest the Sun — From Space


FYI,

"Harvest the Sun — From Space"
New York Times
http://www.nytimes. com/2008/ 07/23/opinion/ 23smith.html?
ex=1374552000& en=94912ae69854b 48f&ei=5124& partner=permalin k&exprod= per
malink

: As we face $4.50 a gallon gas, we also know that alternative energy
: sources — coal, oil shale, ethanol, wind and ground-based solar
: — are either of limited potential, very expensive, require huge
: energy storage systems or harm the environment. There is, however,
: one potential future energy source that is environmentally
: friendly, has essentially unlimited potential and can be cost
: competitive with any renewable source: space solar power.

: Science fiction? Actually, no — the technology already exists. A
: space solar power system would involve building large solar energy
: collectors in orbit around the Earth. These panels would collect
: far more energy than land-based units, which are hampered by
: weather, low angles of the sun in northern climes and, of course,
: the darkness of night.

: Once collected, the solar energy would be safely beamed to Earth
: via wireless radio transmission, where it would be received by
: antennas near cities and other places where large amounts of power
: are used. The received energy would then be converted to electric
: power for distribution over the existing grid. Government
: scientists have projected that the cost of electric power
: generation from such a system could be as low as 8 to 10 cents per
: kilowatt-hour, which is within the range of what consumers pay
: now.

: In terms of cost effectiveness, the two stumbling blocks for space
: solar power have been the expense of launching the collectors and
: the efficiency of their solar cells. Fortunately, the recent
: development of thinner, lighter and much higher efficiency solar
: cells promises to make sending them into space less expensive and
: return of energy much greater.

: Much of the progress has come in the private sector. Companies like
: Space Exploration Technologies and Orbital Sciences, working in
: conjunction with NASA's public-private Commercial Orbital
: Transportation Services initiative, have been developing the
: capacity for very low cost launchings to the International Space
: Station. This same technology could be adapted to sending up a
: solar power satellite system.

: Still, because building the first operational space solar power
: system will be very costly, a practical first step would be to
: conduct a test using the International Space Station as a
: "construction shack" to house the astronauts and equipment. The
: station's existing solar panels could be used for the demonstration
: project, and its robotic manipulator arms could assemble the large
: transmitting antenna. While the station's location in orbit would
: permit only intermittent transmission of power back to Earth, a
: successful test would serve as what scientists call "proof of
: concept."

: Over the past 15 years, Americans have invested more than
: $100 billion, directly and indirectly, on the space station and
: supporting shuttle flights. With an energy crisis deepening, it's
: time to begin to develop a huge return on that investment. (And for
: those who worry that science would lose out to economics, there's
: no reason that work on space solar power couldn't go hand in hand
: with work toward a manned mission to Mars, advanced propulsion
: systems and other priorities of the space station.)

: In fact, in a time of some skepticism about the utility of our
: space program, NASA should realize that the American public would
: be inspired by our astronauts working in space to meet critical
: energy needs here on Earth.

Mark Reiff



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