http://www.next100.com/2009/04/space-solar-power-the-next-fro.php

As part of PG&E's commitment to providing more renewable energy to its customers, the utility has supported a wide range of technologies, including wind, geothermal, biomass, wave and tidal, and at least a half dozen types of solar thermal and photovoltaic power.

Now PG&E is extending that approach to tap renewable energy at an entirely new level: solar power in space.

PG&E is seeking approval from state regulators for a power purchase agreement with Solaren Corp., a Southern California company that has contracted to deliver 200 megawatts of clean, renewable power over a 15 year period.

    Click on the picture below to see the beginnings of the website AZ Publishing Services, LLC in association with the Moon Society of Phoenix, is creating to commemorate the anniversary of Apollo 11. The book, Moon Walk Remembrance, is a beautifully printed collection of pictures taken at that magic moment 40 years ago when humanity first set foot on another world. A must for your personal library!

    A portion of each sale goes to the Moon Society of Phoenix, a non profit organization devoted to the colonization of the moon.

Expanding the Earth’s Economic Sphere

It has been suggested by the President's Science Advisor and the Administrator of NASA that it is time to include the Moon in the "economic sphere of the Earth." Both history and comparative analysis indicate that a privately financed and managed initiative would be the most efficient and productive approach to returning to the Moon in the foreseeable future and to accomplishing this long-term economic goal. Any large scale private initiative focused on a Return to the Moon will have as its ultimate aim a return on investment from production and sale of lunar resources, in particular helium-3 for fusion electric power plants on Earth. In addition to helium-3 for fusion power, sales of by-products from its production, such as hydrogen, water and oxygen to customers in space, will add to bottom line income as well as to investor return. The same can be said of ancillary services based on the existence of an investor-financed lunar settlement and the new space transportation systems required to establish and service that settlement.

A design engineer starts a new project by first setting down the requirements and other criteria that must be met for it to be successful. So what are the world's future energy source requirements?

• It must reliably supply baseload energy just as coal, gas fired, and nuclear power plants have done for a century.
• It must meet the energy needs into the foreseeable future. We aren’t interested in a solution that is short lived.
• The technology must be available now and not depend on new breakthroughs.
• And finally, it must work for every nation and not just America. This last one needs a little more explaining.