Solar Power: Videos
Powering the Planet - Space Based Solar Power (Space Futures Channel)
On October 10, 2007, a report was released by the Pentagon on the feasibility of developing space solar power systems that transmit unlimited energy to Earth. This 20 minute video provides an overview of current concepts and development in this area which, if it could be developed, would provide a new major clean power source for the planet and produce major commercial benefits.
Google Tech Talk on Space Solar Power
A Professor Emeritus of Physics and former Chair of the Department of Applied Science at New York University, leads a Google TechTalks discussion on the future of energy systems and how global warming, overpopulation, depletion of resources, poverty, and water purification will need to be handled in the future as carbon-based energy resources are depleted. The need for energy source transformation is described that will enable us to fuel our high tech civilization. The benefits are presented for renewable energy from both space and terrestrial-based alternative systems.