Caltech to Launch Space Solar Power Technology Demo into Orbit in January. Really!

The Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion produces all sorts of ideas some them of questionable use!

Some questions:

1. How safe, healthy, and environmentally friendly is it to beam energy back to earth?
2. How many such spacecraft are needed to supply millions of people and businesses with power? The scaling question!
3. How efficient and reliable will the energy supply be? Space is a very harsh environment
4. How expensive is this form of power generation compared to more conventional ones?

Perhaps this is just the pipe dream of a rich man and his wife:

"SSPP got its start in 2011 after philanthropist Donald Bren, chairman of Irvine Company and a lifetime member of the Caltech Board of Trustees, learned about the potential for space-based solar energy manufacturing in an article in the magazine Popular Science. Intrigued by the potential for space solar power, Bren approached Caltech's then-president Jean-Lou Chameau to discuss the creation of a space-based solar power research project. In 2013, Bren and his wife, Brigitte Bren, a Caltech trustee, agreed to make the donation to fund the project. The first of the donations to Caltech (which will eventually exceed $100 million in support for the project and endowed professorships) was made that year through the Donald Bren Foundation, and the research began.

"For many years, I've dreamed about how space-based solar power could solve some of humanity's most urgent challenges," Bren says. "Today, I'm thrilled to be supporting Caltech's brilliant scientists as they race to make that dream a reality.""

"... Space solar power provides a way to tap into the practically unlimited supply of solar energy in outer space, where the energy is constantly available without being subjected to the cycles of day and night, seasons, and cloud cover. [Sounds good, but is wrong] ...

and strong enough to withstand the punishing space environment. ...
everything about solar power generation and transmission needed to be rethought for use on a large scale in space. ..."

Caltech to Launch Space Solar Power Technology Demo into Orbit in January | www.caltech.edu In January 2023, the Caltech Space Solar Power Project (SSPP) is poised to launch into orbit a prototype, dubbed the Space Solar Power Demonstrator (SSPD), which will test several key components of an ambitious plan to harvest solar power in space and beam the energy back to Earth.

Caltech space solar power project