[ExI] Trump Is Obsessed With Oil, but Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World

[Keith Henson]

On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 4:14 PM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat
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>
> Have they been able to assemble the funding for a demonstrator?

No,

> How do they compare to space based solar power?  They might not
> require launches to orbit, but are they thinking beamed power or
> wired, to get power down from altitude?  Wired would seem to run afoul
> of more regulations and safety issues than beamed.

Beaming would waste about half the power; wires are almost lossless.

Even though it is several orders of magnitude smaller than power
satellites, it still suffered from high first unit cost and being
unfamiliar to investors.

> Do you have connections to any of their staff, so you can get their
> answers rather than third party speculation?

I used to work (unpaid) for Ed Kelly, but he has not answered emails
for several years.  Ed is the only staff StratoSolar ever had.

Keith

> On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 6:53 PM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
> <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> >
> > I still don't see why nobody is taking Statosolar seriously.
> > It's technically feasible, would generate a lot of power, has almost zero ecological impact, and would cost a fraction of nuclear power plants, plus the incidental benefits of cheap communications infrastructure,and could even pave the way for cheap and efficient space launches (yes, that's speculative).
> >
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