Executive Summary Solar Energy Systems for Industrialization addresses the question of where the baseload energy needed for the industrialization of Developing and Third World Countries will come from. For new technologies to contribute to creation of a global energy system, regional and global cooperation will be required. Not only do we describe the technologies for providing inexhaustible energy, but we also explain how they can be implemented starting at a local level. The technologies are placed in a development framework around which local, regional, and global partnerships can be built. Although the paper is a bit long as papers go and a bit short as books go, it does present a systems solution including financing for discussion and action. International efforts are required to make the transition from current to 21st century energy production methods in order to meet burgeoning global demands for energy without creating unacceptable environmental impacts, and to reduce increasing stresses on the Earth's ecology. Environmentally benign solar energy systems will be essential to make a successful transition from finite non-renewable energy sources prior to the inevitable and perhaps precipitous decline of fossil fuels by the middle of the 21st century. The SUNSAT Energy Council is devoting its efforts to advance the development of solar power satellites (SPS) in the international community of nations as a means of providing continuous electricity on Earth for the benefit of humanity and the environment. A subset of the SUNSAT Energy Council goal is wireless power transmission and power relay satellites (PRS) as the method for transmitting electricity generated with renewable energy sources at remote sites to consumers. From a site such as a hydro-electric plant
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