MIT MIT Space Solar Power Workshop

Terrestrial Energy Generation Based on Space Solar Power: A Feasible Concept or Fantasy?

Date: May 14-16, 2007
Location: MIT, Cambridge MA

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Schedule

Program Overview
Participants: 35 - 50 international experts in a broad range of related fields

  MIT Space Solar Power Workshop  May 13 to May 16, 2007
  Sunday  Monday  Tuesday Wednesday
8:30 AM   Registration and Continental Breakfast*
Location E 40-496
Continental Breakfast
Location 3-031 & 3-062
Continental Breakfast
Location E 40-496
9:00 AM   Welcome and
Workshop Objectives 
  Draft workshop conclusions, recommendations, including road map for SSP
(if appropriate)
9:30 AM   Energy Needs and Forecast 
Breakout Working Groups
10:00 AM   Solar Power Technology
Objective: Draft recommendations and
conclusions
 
10:30 AM   Coffee and Discussions
 
   
11:00 AM   Space Systems Technology
   
11:30 AM   Integration Strategies
   
12:00 PM   Working Lunch
with 
Open Mike
Discussions
Working Lunch Lunch
12:30 PM      
1:00 PM   Breakout Presentations A & B
Location 3-031 & 3-062
Presentations by Working Groups: Policy, Economics, Legal, Environment  
1:30 PM   Breakout Presentations C & D Location E 40-496  
      Space Systems Technology  
2:00 PM   Breakout Presentations E & F
   
2:30 PM   Discussions Coffee Break  
    Coffee Break Solar Power Technology  
3:00 PM        
    Discussions    
3:30 PM     Integration Strategies  
         
4:00 PM        
      Open Discussions  
4:30 PM        
       
5:00 PM    
     
       
6:00 PM Welcome      Evening Activity  
7:00 PM Reception Workshop Dinner   MIT Johnson Athletic Center  
7:45 PM Cambridge  Location to be Announced Casual Dinner   
  Marriott Hotel   Location to be Announced   
         
*There is no cost for the workshop meals for the invited participants
Legend
Breakout Sessions
Plenary Sessions