The clock is ticking to Net Zero and replacing the worlds reliance on fossil fuels requires not only an acceleration in the build of current low carbon technologies but also the development of new ones. Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) has been technically feasible since the 1960's but only now with the reduction of cost in launch and space hardware has the economics now also become attractive. Moving solar panels into space, free of night and weather, beaming down the energy via microwaves delivers much needed baseload energy.
SBSP has several attractive features including the ability for a single spacecraft to instantaneously deliver power across a quarter of the globe and unlike other baseload solutions can be manufactured at scale to deliver several GW's per year of capacity.
David Homfray (Chief Technology Officer, Space Solar) will talk about designing and delivering the Space Solar technical programme, enabling SBSP products to be delivered at scale to meet Net Zero.
To register, please follow this link: https://events.theiet.org/events/space-solar/?Phrase=&Location=Bucks+New+University&Eventtype=&DateRange=
For more details contact Andrew Dodd [Event Coordinator IET Buckinghamshire Local Network]
07801 459471
or
andrew.dodd@ietvolunteer.org
Registration is not essential and walk-in attendance is welcomed.