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Washington DC (SPX) Sep 11, 2008 Space solar power could be a clean, renewable solution to America's long-term energy needs. John C. Mankins, former manager of NASA's Exploration Systems Research and Technology Program, and one of the foremost experts on space solar power, will announce a milestone demonstration of the critical technology enabling SSP: long-distance, solar-powered wireless power transmission. The project demonstrated wireless power transmission between two Hawaiian islands 148 kilometers apart, more than the distance from the surface of Earth to the boundary of space. It will be featured in an hour-long special that evening on Discovery Channel as part of DISCOVERY PROJECT EARTH, an eight-part series on the most ambitious geo-engineering ideas to tackle global climate change and the need for new and sustainable energy sources. Space-based solar power, in which large satellites would collect plentiful solar energy in orbit and beam it safely down to Earth, could one day reduce our carbon emissions to virtually zero. It is the only energy technology that is clean, renewable, constant and capable of providing power to virtually any location on Earth. Mankins will describe the demonstration project and show a realistic plan forward to develop this promising technology. When: Friday, September 12, 2008 at 9:30am Where: National Press Club, Lisagor Room, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, DC 20045, 202-662-7500 Who: John C. Mankins, COO of Managed Energy Technologies LLC, Mark Hopkins, Senior Vice President, National Space Society Hosted by: National Space Society Please RSVP to: Katherine Brick - katherine.brick@nss.org - (202) 429-1600 Community Email This Article Comment On This Article Share This Article With Planet Earth
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