Renewable Base Electric Power
This website concerns architectures that can deliver 5 terawatts of base electric power to the world power grids by the end of the century at a low price as understood in real world economics.
Numeric Literacy is necessary to comprehend how much power an individual requires, how much nature can provide, and how this depends on population.
Justification for a plan of this magnitude is necessary to define the objectives.
Space Based Solar Power
The concept of solar power from space by Peter Glaser is inherently passive and might allow operating cost low enough to support high capital cost.
Boundary conditions for technical and financial feasibility follow logically from basic economics. A narrow window of feasibility exists for system that is very large. Optimum economy of scale requires a large infrastructure.
The plant architecture is limited by the minimum mass of an operational plant, by the maximum mass that is financially feasible to transport to orbit, and by the available construction methods.
Construction in space adapts conventional manufacturing methods for maximum advantage in the unconventional space environment.
* A recent book with this title by Edward J. Bair (Authorhouse, 2007) summarizes the advantages and limitations of known energy sources with respect to the present base power sources, coal and uranium.