Turning Sunlight into Sovereignty

Space-Based Solar Power is America's Ultimate Dual-Use Technology.

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The U.S. military’s power demand is exploding. The planet’s carbon budget is collapsing. And one technology could help fix both.

Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) takes a deceptively simple idea—collect sunlight in space, where it’s constant and unfiltered, then beam that energy where it’s needed. No night, no clouds, no convoys. Just continuous, pointable power.

We’ve written about this before—operational energy and its fragility, power beaming and DARPA’s laser programs, space industrialization and humanity’s future beyond Earth. This is where those threads converge. SBSP isn’t science fiction anymore. It’s the most consequential dual-use technology of the 21st century—a clean-energy revolution and a military logistics revolution.

NASA’s Cautious Report—and the Reality Beneath It

In January 2024, NASA quietly published its Space-Based Solar Power Study—a sprawling, technically rich document that nonetheless landed with a thud. Its official conclusion: economically unfeasible.

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