deliver energy everywhere it is necessary, above all in developing countries which will trade risky conventional sources of energy for cleaner, cheaper energy from space. We should be ready to properly answer to concerns related to the environmental effects involved by the Space Solar Power Program: to explain if it can be dangerous to beam power to the Earth in the microwaves range, to say clearly that a laser or microwave beaming system will be used only for power transmission from space (and not for military purposes), to specify according to which criteria the site of the rectenna will be chosen, to give a realistic idea of the conditions of working and living in space during the construction of the system and its operation and maintenance. Other concerns could arise about the ownership of the Program, who controls the switch, if it may be used as a weapon by some terrorist groups, how long the system will last before it needs to be replaced, etc. We should be able to stress that the Space Solar Power Program is an international project and every country that is involved in its realization will have a part of responsibility as well as a part of profit in it Educational Policy In order to succeed in educating the public, the IPSO will need a well-designed educational policy and a plan for implementing it. We believe that a main feature of this policy will be that education, as opposed to public relations, should be concerned not with convincing the public of something, but rattier with giving the public the information it needs to make its own decisions. Therefore, the educational policy of the Space Solar Power Program ought to take care to provide all the necessary factual information of relevance to it, even if such information is not always favorable towards space solar power. For example, if there are dangers associated with the Space Solar Power Program and power beaming, then the public needs to know about them, and about how such dangers might be prevented or limited. Another important feature of our educational policy is that all people on Earth who might be directly affected by the space solar power, and especially those who will be living near rectenna sites, ought to have the opportunity to learn about the Space Solar Power Program. The ISPO must assume the financial responsibility for such educational tasks. In order to ensure a consistent level of education about the Space Solar Power Program, the ISPO should do the following things: (1) Start an Education Office in the Space Solar Power Program to coordinate public education. (2) Produce educational materials about the Space Solar Power Program in the form of videos and pamphlets. (3) Train a team to travel around and educate school teachers about the Space Solar Power Program. (4) Fund public television documentaries about the Space Solar Power Program. (5) Provide assistance in the development of advanced curricula about the Space Solar Power Program. We should also note that particular kinds of educational materials will be appropriate for particular audiences. We must make sure to produce a complete range of materials for different levels of schooling and according to the different nationalities and cultures. We should also make sure that our advanced materials provide information targeted to the concerns of the various technical and special interest groups that will want to learn about the Space Solar Power Program to a deeper level of understanding. Finally, we must take special care to produce educational materials about how the space solar power might help resolve some of our environmental problems, and target these materials to environmental groups. As to the nature of the specific content of the Space Solar Power Program educational materials, this report is not the proper place in which to present a developed curriculum. However, we would like to point out some of those concepts which must be included in such a curriculum when it is formulated. The following list is intended to summarize some of these concepts, from more general issues to more specific ones:
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