The Energy Sector will always be lucrative.
Musk notwithstanding, you can only make so much money on comsats.
Space Solar Power is a way for aerospace to tap those profits directly...as opposed to just warfighting that folks are sick of.
Powersats don't chop up birds or burn them. They keep Greens happy and don't enrich warmongers like Cheney.
In the past oil wars, big aerospace and big oil were on the same side.
Space solar power can now drive a wedge between these two interest groups.
Now if Dwayne would kindly keep to his Cold War marginalia and quit his sabotage attempts in the pages of Space Review...
One other thing to consider:
Dyson Harrop cable based Space solar power sats may exist only as cables...not as much in the way of surface area...perhaps also lending itself towards ASTEN like Superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) systems.
[URL unfurl="true"]https://space.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/Results/2009/ASTEN.pdf[/URL]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson–Harrop_satellite
---and maybe even defense against solar kill-shots:
We outline a mitigation strategy to protect our planet by setting up a magnetic shield to deflect charged particles at the Lagrange point L1, and demonstrate that this approach appears to be realizable in terms of its basic physical parameters.
Tethers have been looked at to siphon off the Van Allen Belts...
[URL unfurl="true"]https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.05348[/URL]
Now we have one way superconductivity:
[URL unfurl="true"]https://phys.org/news/2022-04-discovery-one-way-superconductor-thought-impossible.html[/URL]
More useful for computing now....but maybe scaled up later for a return to direct current...and Edison's re-ascendancy?
