December 25th we started the daily releases of the SUNSAT Energy Council’s Space Solar Power Review / Space Power journals. All told we have added 378 new SPS papers and articles, 4966 pages of SPS content that had been previously thought lost. As has been noted along the way, when it comes to space policy and technology even decades do not make these deeper things obsolete; the Space industry gets some occasional major and revolutionary jumps but the bigger pictures move far slower. Sadly.
Today is the final day of this very special feature and it goes out with several still-timely bangs.
Among the articles:
“Space-Based Energy Need a Consortium and a Revision of the Moon Treaty” by Declan O’Donnell and Philip Harris could have been written today – or just a couple of years ago today with the Saudi decision of January 5th, 2023.
In “The Power Relay Satellite” by SPS inventor Dr. Peter Glaser extends the Top Down to Bottom Up, Over and Down using the same established technologies for even greater Human benefit.
And a major special section in the wrap-up issue “Solar Energy Systems for Industrialization” from the SUNSAT Energy Council directly takes on the the question of where the baseload energy that is needed for the industrialization of developing third world countries in this century will come from.
Day 12 of the 12 days of SPS, the final four issues are waiting for you now in the grid at the bottom of this page on SSI.Org
It’s not over.
378 new SPS papers and articles, 4966 new SPS pages added in 12 days. That’s a lot and we have a feeling that there aren’t many wo have kept up a reading binge along with the rollout. Now that this event is over, your part is not. You are free to and most welcome to and strongly urged to come back to SSI.org and re-skim all of the issues and to re-read and, for the actual useful good of it, to USE this data and information.
Our thanks again to Dr. Gay Canough for her direct assistance to this feature, and to the Space Studies Institute Associates and Senior Associates who not only pay in their yearly dues to keep the Institute alive, but who also often go above the call to support special projects like this one. SSI Associates and Senior Associate are the lifeblood of this organization and we appreciate each and every one of you.
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