America Needs a Strategy for Space-Based Solar Power

Payne Institute Fellow Alex Gilbert and Leet W. Wood write about how solar power beamed from space is exactly the kind of leadership-defining, world-changing bets that the United States should be making this century.  By capturing solar energy in outer space, without the many factors that make terrestrial solar intermittent, SBSP can unlock a whole new class of baseload energy technologies to provide clean energy and reduce carbon emissions.  July 2, 2023.