Wearing their Space Frontier Foundation hats (get yours here) as leaders of this public discussion:

Margo

Margo Deckard is CEO and owner of Space Policy Consulting, Inc, and the manager of the Space Frontier Foundation’s Space Solar Power Project. In 2000, she was the principal investigator for a NASA-funded study that reintroduced SSP to the environmental community, and gathered input from this community on perceived costs and benefits of this technology.

Coyote

Colonel M.V. “Coyote” Smith, is a PhD student in the strategic studies program under Professor Colin Gray at the University of Reading in the UK.  His PhD thesis proposes a spacepower theory to define, categorize, explain, connect, and anticipate economic and security activities in space.  Until September 2007, he was the Chief of Future Concepts (Dream Works) for the National Security Space Office at the Pentagon, and the Director of the Space Solar Power Study.  His first book, Ten Propositions Regarding Spacepower, is considered a foundational work for understanding spacepower.