I am in Policy Debate in our school, we hosted a tournament and kind of got beaten up because we had no specific info on SBSP for our negative. All we ran for our neg was space debris, rocket pollution, and causing global conflict. What are we missing and where can we get some solid info? Thanks.
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December 6th, 2011 at 11:47 am
Headline “Space based solar power collector goes astray – thousands burned as energy goes off target and wipes out Solarville”
And that applies to collecting a lot of sunlight and aiming it down to use in a small area on earth or converting it to radio waves and aiming the intense power into a small area for conversion to electricity.
December 6th, 2011 at 11:59 am
It’s expensive.
It requires a technology for sending the power to some useful place.
It will have to cover vast areas of space. It will be fragile, expensive to repair, open to sabotage and disruption.
There exists no technology for making the panels in space; they’ll have to be lifted from the bottom of the Earth’s gravity well to orbit, probably to geostationary orbit.
December 6th, 2011 at 12:41 pm
The space debris issue is more a risk to it than causing it, it is stupidly expensive, would need constant maintenance, but really the main problem it would disrupt too many other satellites and their signals, and is less efficient than fossil fuel. If looking for a good argument i would go with the microwave transference of the energy concept, and its massive disruption and dangers