Environmental Aspects of Using Space Solar Power Plants to Create Information in Orbit

Abstract

Considered a proposal to combat global warming, which consists in placing the creation of information in near-earth space. It is shown that instead of a space solar power plant that transmits energy to terrestrial consumers, it is more profitable to organize an orbital territorial-production complex, in which a new information and communications energy production cycle is implemented: the energy received from the Sun is used on site to create and store valuable information, and instead of an unused technology of wireless energy transmission to Earth, using a well-functioning space communication technology. Using the simplest mathematical model, it was demonstrated that the profitability of orbital information must be considered taking into account the anthropogenic impact on the climate of ground data centers. The dependence of the profitability of an information orbital product in comparison with a ground-based analogue on the cost of emission quotas for waste heat and greenhouse gases is discussed.