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Economic And Demographic Issues Related To Deployment Of The SPS

  • Contract Number: W31109ENG38
  • Report Code: ANLEESTM23
  • Release year: 1978
  • Pages: 82

Coordinating Organizations:

  • Argonne National Laboratory
  • National Air and Space Administration
  • Planning Research Corporation
  • US Department Of Energy

Contributors:

Edward H Allen, Lawrence G Baldwin, Charles E Bloomquist, Jack Campbell, H Paul Friesema, Frederick Grygiel, Lee Guernsey, Lawrence G Hill, Sung-Woong Hong, June F Johansen, Dane L Mazzitti, Patricia W Mosena, Danilo J Santini, Erik J Stenehjem, William R Waters, Thomas D Wolsko

Abstract/Description:

A series of white papers were prepared at the request of the Planning Research Company as input to the Societal Assessment of the Satellite Power System (SPS) Concept Development and Evaluation Program sponsored by the United States Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research, SPS Project Office [yes, the United States actually had an SPS Project Office. - editor]. The objective of the Societal Assessment was to identify and characterize those social, legal and political ramifications of the SPS technology that might significantly influence its development and to determine strategies that might make the SPS more socially acceptable.
This paper assess the impacts of large new energy sources from Satellite Power Systems on the distribution of industry and population in the U.S. and other countries receiving SPS outputs.

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