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The Department of Defense should procure electricity produced in the United States from space based solar power upon private sector development as long as it does not exceed %241 per kilowatt hour.
Status quo approaches to SPS-ALPHA non-unique their DAs, but development and demonstration are key
David 4-9 - winner of last year’s National Space Club Press Award and a past editor-in-chief of the National Space Society’s Ad Astra and Space World magazines
Leonard, "Energy-hungry Earth sees a solution in space," http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46993879/ns/technology_and_science-space/~~%23.T44ZlJpWrQi
An energy-hungry Earth is in need of transformational and sustainable energy solutions,
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a low-Earth orbit flight test of the system," he concluded.
Mankins 12 – MBA in Public Policy, 25-year scientist @ CalTech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and NASA
John, "SPS-ALPHA," http://www.nasa.gov/pdf/636903main_Mankins_Presentation.pdf
Two workshops have been held by the project¶ One in the US (Feb
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, and the Energy Security of the US, its friends and allies…
Mankins 8 – Former Manager of Concept Studies @ NASA
John Mankins, President of ARTEMIS Innovation Management Solutions LLC and Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Managed Energy Technologies LLC, MBA in Public Policy Analysis, authored or co-authored more than 70 published papers, reports and other technical documents, and has testified before Congress on several occasions, and has been consulted on R%26D management and space issues with organizations in the U.S. and internationally, "Inexhaustible Energy from Orbit" Spring 2008, Ad Astra, http://www.nss.org/adastra/AdAstra-SBSP-2008.pdf
At an altitude of 22,240 miles above Earth, a great platform orbits
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best meet the dynamically changing requirements of populations separated by thousands of miles.
Flournoy 12 – PhD and MA from the University of Texas, Former Dean of the University College @ Ohio University, Former Associate Dean @ State University of New York and Case Institute of Technology, Project Manager for University/Industry Experiments for the NASA ACTS Satellite, Currently Professor of Telecommunications @ Scripps College of Communications @ Ohio University
Don, "Solar Power Satellites," January, Springer Briefs in Space Development, Book
The National Space Society (NSS) hosts annual conferences that include ses- sions
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our Sun" (Hsu 2010) (Fig. 2.1).
It’s real and human-induced
-now is key
-AR4 = IPCC
Somerville 11 – Professor of Oceanography @ UCSD
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 3-8-2011, "CLIMATE SCIENCE AND EPA’S GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATIONS," CQ Congressional Testimony, Lexis
1n early 2007, at the time of the publication of WG1 of AR4,
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next five to ten years, reaching near zero well within this century.
Hansen 9 - Director of Nasa’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies
James Hansen, Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Columbia University and Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Iowa), "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them," The Observer, Sunday 15 February 2009, pg. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/feb/15/james-hansen-power-plants-coal
A year ago, I wrote to Gordon Brown asking him to place a moratorium
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that would be committed to extinction if carbon dioxide rose another 100 ppm.
Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122
The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2
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adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.
Duane 10 – Professor of Environmental Studies
Timothy Duane, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz, 2010, "Greening the Grid: Implementing Climate Change Policy Through Energy Efficiency, Renewable Portfolio Standards, and Strategic Transmission System Investments," 34 Vt. L. Rev. 711, Lexis
Understanding the existing institutional framework is therefore essential both in design and implementation of climate
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effect if the electricity is produced through coal rather than renewable power sources.
Speth 8 – Dean of Yale school of Forestry
James, dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Currently he serves the school as the Carl W. Knobloch, Jr. Dean and Sara Shallenberger Brown Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy, The Bridge @ the Edge of the World, pg. 37
The cumulative effect of all the factors is that species loss today is estimated to
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and the meadowlark have lost more than half their populations in forty years.
Bosselman 7 - Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Fred, "THE NEW POWER GENERATION: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND ELECTRICITY INNOVATION: COLLOQUIUM ARTICLE: THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER," 15 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1, Lexis
Virtually all of the coal mined in the United States is used as boiler fuel
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coal-burning power plants cause some 320 deaths per year worldwide. 185-http://www.lexis.com/research/retrieve?_m=4a9f74e9d68358dde5b1da7c76fcc08d%26docnum=49%26_fmtstr=FULL%26_startdoc=1%26wchp=dGLbVlz-zSkAB%26_md5=b940f69f179ebb657dc94d1baf8c0fbd
Hershkowitz 11 – Senior Scientist @ NRDC
Allen, "Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining: The National Research Council Should Investigate," http://www.huffingtonpost.com/allen-hershkowitz/mountaintop-removal-coal-_b_882705.html
In 2009, Dr. Margaret Palmer of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental
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is wiping out some of the most biologically rich temperate forests on Earth.
Bosselman 7 - Professor of Law Emeritus, Chicago-Kent College of Law
Fred, "THE NEW POWER GENERATION: ENVIRONMENTAL LAW AND ELECTRICITY INNOVATION: COLLOQUIUM ARTICLE: THE ECOLOGICAL ADVANTAGES OF NUCLEAR POWER," 15 N.Y.U. Envtl. L.J. 1, Lexis
The study of the ecological impact of the Chernobyl experience should cause us to compare
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next half-century will alter the climate for millennia to come." 277-https://www.lexis.com/research/retrieve?_m=cbb7652f4b49e66a48671c10efe40369%26csvc=bl%26cform=searchForm%26_fmtstr=FULL%26docnum=1%26_startdoc=1%26wchp=dGLbVlb-zSkAl%26_md5=9f0576a597da3375fc96a86dd210fb55
Coyne and Hoekstra 7 – *Professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago AND Associate Professor in the Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University
Jerry and Hopi, "The Greatest Dying", The New Republic, September 24th 2007, June 26th 2010, http://www.truthout.org/article/jerry-coyne-and-hopi-e-hoekstra-the-greatestdying-http://www.truthout.org/article/jerry-coyne-and-hopi-e-hoekstra-the-greatestdying
Every year, up to 30,000 species disappear due to human activity alone
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just another Great Dying, but perhaps the greatest dying of them all.
Kusiolek 9 – Chairman of TransGlobal
Richard Kusiolek, Chairman %26 President of TransGlobalNet Inc., a Mountain View California company that provides Global Management Consulting in International Marketing, 3-2009, "Space-based Solar Power Comes to Light," Via Satellite, Lexis
The satellite industry’s efforts in the space solar power arena could play a key role
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2 percent of the energy needs for the United States," he says.
Nansen 95 – Former space engineer
Ralph Nansen, world leader in designing, developing and promoting Solar Power Satellites. Nansen spent 31 years with The Boeing Company, asked to testify before such Congressional committees as the Senate Space Subcommittee in 1976 and the House Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics in 1978 and again in September 2000, "Sun Power The Global Solution for the Coming Energy Crisis," National Space Society, http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/sunpower/sunpower09.html
My answer to that question is clear and unequivocal. The United States should proceed
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create a massive number of jobs that would bring growth to our economy.
NSSO 7
National Security Space Office, Report to the Director, 10-10-2007, "Space-Based Solar Power As an Opportunity for Strategic Security; Phase 0 Architecture Feasibility Study," NSS, http://www.nss.org/settlement/ssp/library/final-sbsp-interim-assessment-release-01.pdf
Finding: The SBSP Study Group found that SBSP appears to have significant growth potential
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significant portion of the world energy portfolio by mid‐century and beyond.
Royal 10 – Director of CTR
Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction – U.S. Department of Defense, "Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises", Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.
IAA 11
International Academy of Astronautics, Academy that brings together the world’s foremost experts in the disciplines of astronautics on a regular basis to recognize the accomplishments of their peers, and explores and discuss cutting-edge issues in space research and technology, 4-2011, "The First International Assessment of Space Solar Power: Opportunities, Issues and Potential Pathways Forward," Green Energy From Space Solar Power, http://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/Study%20Groups/SG%20Commission%203/sg311/sg311finalreport.pdf
Another important and clear terrestrial benefit that would result from the development and deployment of
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the order of 5,000,000 individuals might be realized eventually.
AFL-CIO 1
"An American Economy That Works for All Working Families," http://www.aflcio.org/aboutus/thisistheaflcio/convention/2001/resolutions/upload/res6.pdf
Low unemployment rates also yield tremendous social benefits by providing a rung on the ladder
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greater productivity, enhanced opportunities for the most disadvantaged and sound public finances.
This solves economic nationalism and protectionism
El-Erian 9 – CEO @ Pimco
Mohamed, chief executive and co-chief investment officer of Pimco, American jobs data are worse than we think, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e06911c-6719-11de-925f-00144feabdc0.html~~%23axzz1RAPfeGsO
This conventional wisdom is valid most, but not all of the time. There
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, the greater will be the cost to society of restoring economic stability.
The impact is great power conflict and nuclear terrorism
Panzner 8 -faculty at the New York Institute of Finance, 25-year veteran of the global stock, bond, and currency markets who has worked in New York and London for HSBC, Soros Funds, ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank, and JPMorgan Chase
Michael, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, Revised and Updated Edition, p. 136-138
Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and trade will inspire the United
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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.
Czamik 7
Lieutenant Colonel Joseph E. Czarnik USAWC STRATEGY RESEARCH PROJECT – "US OIL DEPENDENCY—THE NEW WEAPON OF MASS DISRUPTION" United States Army Reserve 30 MAR 2007 DTIC
One could easily argue that the United States’ current addiction to imported fossil fuel has
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could deliver this great power a devastating blow without ever engaging the military.
Lindsay 11 – PhD in Political Science from Yale, VP of CFR, served as a consultant to the United States Commission on National Security/21st Century (Hart-Rudman Commission) and as a staff expert for the United States Institute of Peace’s Congress-mandated Task Force on the United Nations
James, "George W. Bush, Barack Obama and the future of US global leadership," International Affairs 87:4 (2011) 765–779, Wiley Online
Debate regarding the prospect of a decline in American power is not new. 2
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in future be, to become significantly less than it has been. 10
U.S. hegemonic decline causes nuclear war and extinction – solves backlash, leads to liberal values globally – solves their impact
-specifically answers arguments about "imperialism" and "hubris"
Barnett 11 – Professor @ the Centre for Naval Warfare Studies
Thomas P.M. Barnett 11 Former Senior Strategic Researcher and Professor in the Warfare Analysis %26 Research Department, Center for Naval Warfare Studies, U.S. Naval War College American military geostrategist and Chief Analyst at Wikistrat., worked as the Assistant for Strategic Futures in the Office of Force Transformation in the Department of Defense, "The New Rules: Leadership Fatigue Puts U.S., and Globalization, at Crossroads," March 7
Events in Libya are a further reminder for Americans that we stand at a crossroads
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in all of its forms, deeply embedded in the geometry to come.
US provided military security leads to global human security – creates the conditions for sustainable peace – the alternative reverts to historical rivalries and aggression
Schuman 11 – MA in IR from Columbia
Mike, "Will America’s budget deficit bring an end to world peace?," http://curiouscapitalist.blogs.time.com/2011/07/06/will-america%e2%80%99s-budget-deficit-bring-an-end-to-world-peace/~~%23ixzz1TzycsOIx
Did you know that the U.S. still stations nearly 50,000
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political upheaval. What if we witnessed the same on a global scale?
