There is an energy crisis. There is an environmental crisis. And the two are about to collide.

Mark and Jeremy speak with Martin Soltau, co-founder of Space Solar, about the race to build space-based solar power in orbit, a system that could beam clean electricity to Earth twenty-four hours a day.

While fossil fuel giants use artificial intelligence to find new oil and gas, engineers are building satellites that could replace them. With projected costs as low as $30 per megawatt hour, space-based solar could change the economics of power and the politics that shape it.

This episode examines the engineering, economics, and policy shifts that could make orbit-generated clean energy inevitable.

The question isn’t whether we can capture the sun’s power. It’s whether we’ll use it in time.

Please Enjoy the show. And share with a curious friend.

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Learn More: https://www.spacesolar.co.uk/

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Timestamps 

(00:00) Disruptors And Curious Minds 

(01:34) Space Based Solar Satellites 

(05:10) The Ground Infrastructure 

(07:37) SBSP V Nuclear, Coal & Gas 

(12:05) Launch Costs 

(13:55) Data Centers In Space 

(15:36) Scaling Space Based Solar Power 

(18:08) Manufacturing In Space 

(20:25) The Eisenhower Of SBSP 

(23:10) The Politics Of Space Based Solar Power 

(28:35) Energy Is Everything 

(31:05) The Government Perspective 

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