{"id":1146,"date":"2009-01-24T09:36:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-24T15:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2009-01-24T09:36:19","modified_gmt":"2009-01-24T15:36:19","slug":"space-elevators-needed-for-space-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=1146","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Space elevators needed for space solar power?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_ShortSharpScienceLogo.jpg\"  height=\"36\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 36px\" \/>In Short Sharp Science*, a Science blog from New Scientist, Paul Marks <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/blogs\/shortsharpscience\/2009\/01\/space-elevators-needed-for-spa.html\">discusses<\/a> using a Space Elevator to facilitate the creation of Space Solar power satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Swan, a member of the Board of Directors of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.isec.info\">International Space Elevator Consortium<\/a> (ISEC) is quoted:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"alignleft\"><em>&#8220;Half the cost of everything you put in space is down to the launch cost,&#8221; former spaceflight engineer Peter Swan told the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iafastro.org\/index.php?id=738\"><em>International Astronautical Congress<\/em><\/a><em> in Glasgow, UK, in October 2008. &#8220;The economics of space-based solar power don&#8217;t work with current launch costs. So we have to figure out how to do it without chemical launch.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Long-time readers know that I&#8217;m <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=622\">personally skeptical<\/a> of Space Solar Power (SSP)\u00a0ever being more than a niche-application provider of power;\u00a0there&#8217;s just too darn much stuff you have to put into space to supply more than an insignificant amount of our planet&#8217;s needs.\u00a0 But if your serious about SSP, then I think you have to be a supporter of the concept of a Space Elevator; nothing else has a chance of being scalable to the order of magnitude necessary to make the idea of Space Solar Power feasible (IMHO, of course)&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Short Sharp Science*, a Science blog from New Scientist, Paul Marks discusses using a Space Elevator to facilitate the creation of Space Solar power satellites. Peter Swan, a member of the Board of Directors of the International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) is quoted: &#8220;Half the cost of everything you put in space is down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}