5.2 LONG-TERM Based on the tools and understanding developed in the short-term assessments, long-term research should examine the question of whether SPS deployment will contribute to the centralization or decentralization of economic activity and society. Resolution of this issue and the ability to accurately predict the future sociodemographic consequences of SPS will require basic research on the following topics in FY 1980 and beyond: • Radial effects of industrial location as consequences of future electric transmission efficiency and the cost of SPS energy to the user. • The proportion and composition of economic activity that can be expected to relocate subsequent to rectenna siting. • The economic and demographic consequences of redistributing capital investments due to SPS deployment. • How public opinion about rectenna siting and attendant sociodemographic impacts may affect any of the above. • International movements of economic activity and population that may be affected by rectenna siting.
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