Space Solar Power Workshop -- Clean Baseload Energy

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On December 15, 2011, Georgia Tech's Space Solar Power Workshop held its first Microwave Power Transfer Symposium. The symposium was sponsored by the Space Solar Power Institute, Georgia Tech's Propagation Group, and ECE 4370 and 6390. If you would like to be apprised of upcoming events with Georgia Tech's Space Solar Power Workshop, please link here.
*Previous SSP Presentations*	Escalating tension between our economy, energy choices and environment drove us to search for the best energy choice. That choice is Space Solar Power (SSP) – the cleanest baseload electricity generation process known. Gathered by satellites in geosynchronous orbit (shown above) for use on Earth, pure clean energy would be beamed gently to earth.
	The most authoritative research predicts peak global oil production will occur sometime between 2008 and 2018, based on by F. Robelius' dissertation , “Giant Oil Fields – Highway to Oil”. Private UK studies by the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security have projected the production peak year to be approximately 2012 to 2013. Regardless of the precise year, Washington continues doing nothing on the scale required. It will take decades to cleanly repower the world - after we begin. Copper, aluminum and iron are minerals that can be recycled, but fossil fuels are gone after they have been burned. As we use increasingly lower grade ores, we require more and cleaner energy. Replacing oil with coal continues to exacerbate CO₂and other environmental problems. SSP should become the major source of the world’s energy and electric power to minimize mankind's environmental footprint.
It's easy - write your Representative	David Rutledge, chair of Caltech’s Division of Engineering and Applied Science, projects a combined peak for world oil, gas, and coal production in 2019 - “Hubbert's Peak, The Coal Question, and Climate Change”. Charlie Maxwell, “dean of world oil analysts” forecasts a peak in production of all liquids - including condensates, tar sands oil and biodiesel in 2015. Write your Congressman after you have studied our presentations, articles and our letters on current (2010) letters to Congress on funding SSP. Six Congressmen received this letter from the SSPW in Jan. 2008 requesting Congress authorize the charter of a Space Solar Power Corporation.
SSPW Event Draft Scenario Overview	Many of the slowly escalating issues in our environment, including declining nutrition in our food and the building avalanche of climate changes to our weather can be traced to rising CO₂ in our atmosphere burning of fossil (oil, coal and natural gas) fuels, will have doubled from historic levels around the middle of this century. Competition between food and fuel has increased. Food prices are surging faster than wages, as they are tied to the price of oil as debt unwinds and energy prices constrain our economy.
SSPW Working Groups and Modules	The SSPW is a continuing conceptual design of how to build, finance, deliver, market, support, operate, and maintain an SSP System for the world baseload energy market. This volunteer professional workshop is offered in conjunction with various conferences recently including the AIAA Space 2010, PowerUp 2010, Int'l Space Development Conference 2011, and others.