The cost of that energy is reflected in the roof over your head to the beans in your bowl. The high cost of a new house, car, or box of cereal is directly related to the amount of energy needed for production. The resources that produce that energy have been fought over in Vietnam, Kuwait, and in Somalia, the Energy Wars of the 20th century. In each case vast quantities of oil were at stake. Space Power Generators will reduce the cost of living, end the need for energy wars, and raise the standard of living world wide.
Free energy is an equalizer.
It is becoming obvious that the standard of living in the industrial world must fall in order for the standard of living to be raised in the third world. More than half of the world's soon to be six billion people have little or no access to electricity. They can't turn on the lights when they go home. The rest of the world wants a piece of that pie. We can either redistribute our share of the pie or make the pie larger.