There is such a project ready and just waiting for sufficient support: space-based solar power.

It is the final mission toward completing a space-based solar power satellite.

Space-based solar power, is the concept using spacecraft in space for Earth power.

Space-based solar power faces especially tall odds, given costs for launching and assembly.

These include space colonization, space-based solar power and terraforming Mars.

There have been proposals to use solar-pumped lasers for space-based solar power.

Space-based solar power will be commercially viable.

The researchers called for intensive new efforts to improve existing technologies and develop others like fusion reactors or space-based solar power plants.

Space-based solar power essentially consists of three elements:

Futurist John Smart has discussed the potential for weather control via space-based solar power networks.

Space-based solar power (SBSP) would allow us to work around these challenges.

However, if a civilization constructed very large space-based solar power satellites, Type I power levels might be achievable.

If successful, this project would be the first implementation of space-based solar power (SBSP).

Space-based solar power - : Part of the solar energy is lost on its way through the atmosphere by the effects of reflection and absorption.

Space-based solar power, although more expensive than using solar panels on Earth, is attractive because of its capability to provide a clean, inexhaustible power supply around the clock.

Pete Worden, center director for NASA's Ames Research Center, described himself as a "reformed zealot" about space-based solar power systems on the show.

Large and efficient space-based solar power could offer clean and efficient power beamed directly to Earth thereby reducing dependency on limited fossil fuels and/or existing power distribution networks.

Space-based solar power systems convert sunlight to microwaves outside the atmosphere, avoiding these losses, and the downtime (and cosine losses, for fixed flat-plate collectors) due to the Earth's rotation.

SpaceWorks is part of the Artemis Innovative Management Solutions team maturing technologies and concepts for a space-based solar power system known as SPS-ALPHA.

A collection of LEO (Low Earth Orbit) space power stations has been proposed as a precursor to GEO (Geostationary Orbit) space-based solar power.

Theoretically, for space-based solar power satellite designs, solar mirrors could reduce PV cell costs and launch costs since they are expected to be both lighter and cheaper than equivalent large areas of PV cells.

Space-based solar power (SBSP) is the concept of collecting solar power in space (using an "SPS", that is, a "solar power satellite" or a "satellite power system") for use on Earth.

Called the Kalam-NSS Initiative after the former Indian President Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, the forum will lay the groundwork for the space-based solar power program which could see other countries joining in as well.

It did not emphasize options such as asteroid mining (other than the one mention noted above) or space-based solar power that could involve the private sector and the development of new space-based industries, and meet key national objectives such as energy independence and reducing climate change.

In 2009, Dr. Chapman formed the Solar High Study Group, "a team of senior managers and technologists with directly relevant experience who believe that space-based solar power can solve the problem of bringing clean, affordable energy to people anywhere on Earth or in space."