Thinking On Paper Can Space-Based Solar Break Earth’s Energy System? | Martin Soltau, Space Solar CEO & Founder
There is an energy crisis. There is an environmental crisis. And the two are about to collide.
Mark and Jeremy speak with Martin Soltau, co-founder of Space Solar, about the race to build space-based solar power in orbit, a system that could beam clean electricity to Earth twenty-four hours a day.
While fossil fuel giants use artificial intelligence to find new oil and gas, engineers are building satellites that could replace them. With projected costs as low as $30 per megawatt hour, space-based solar could change the economics of power and the politics that shape it.
This episode examines the engineering, economics, and policy shifts that could make orbit-generated clean energy inevitable.
The question isn’t whether we can capture the sun’s power. It’s whether we’ll use it in time.
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Timestamps
(00:00) Disruptors And Curious Minds
(01:34) Space Based Solar Satellites
(05:10) The Ground Infrastructure
(07:37) SBSP V Nuclear, Coal & Gas
(12:05) Launch Costs
(13:55) Data Centers In Space
(15:36) Scaling Space Based Solar Power
(18:08) Manufacturing In Space
(20:25) The Eisenhower Of SBSP
(23:10) The Politics Of Space Based Solar Power
(28:35) Energy Is Everything
(31:05) The Government Perspective
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