A Pentagon-chartered report recently urged the U.S. to take the lead in developing space platforms capable of capturing sunlight and beaming electrical power back to the Earth. The report was done by the National Security Space Office this spring in an effort that relied heavily on internet discussions by more than 170 scientific, legal and business experts around the world. The Space Frontier Foundation hosted the website used in the data collection. This report goes on to ask the U.S. government to help fund the development of space-based solar power with the intention of creating a massive orbital platform placed in a geosynchronous orbit that will collect between five and ten-megawatts of power and send it down to the Earth.