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World Wide Web sites that I find useful, perhaps you will too. Any suggestions
for additions to this list are welcome. Just contact me.
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This first group of cites was found on the NASA website using my
nascent PhD research skills. Once again, as was the case with my original vision of GIS in 1989, my dream of lunar manufacturing
for a SSPS was investigated pretty thoroughly back in the mid-1970s. I haven't yet had the time to find NASA's
revisitations of the idea in 1992?, 1997. Well, let us learn:
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SOLAR RADIATION: AN ABUNDANT AND ESSENTIAL SOURCE OF ENERGY, from Chapter 2 of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
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SATELLITE SOLAR POWER STATIONS: NO ALTERNATIVES, from Chapter 4 of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
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PRODUCTION OF ENERGY IN SPACE AS A POTENTIAL ECONOMIC JUSTIFICATION
FOR SPACE COLONIZATION, from Chapter 6 of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
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Terrestrial SSPSs are assumed to transmit at a 10 cm wavelength with
67 percent efficiency, from Chapter 6, APPENDIX B, LUNAR SSPS POWER of the 1975 Summer Study
on Space Settlement.
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ELECTRICITY BENEFITS, from Chapter 6, APPENDIX E of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
Includes interesting discussion of American energy pricing.
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COMPOSITE VARIABLES FOR SSPS AND ADDITIONAL COLONIES, from Chapter 6, APPENDIX F of the 1975 Summer Study on Space
Settlement. Includes interesting table of capital costs in 1975 dollars. At this time, the vision was apparently
only for benefit of US citizens, as opposed to globally distributed utility as I envisioned.
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ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT OF MICROWAVE POWER TRANSMISSION, from Chapter 6, APPENDIX H of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
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IMPACT OF EARTH LAUNCH VEHICLES ON THE OZONE LAYER, from Chapter 6, APPENDIX N of the 1975 Summer Study on Space
Settlement. <<Warning: as the era of private space exploitation approaches in 2008, has this been further
studied?>>
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SOME ECONOMIC CONSIDERATIONS, from Chapter 7 of the 1975 Summer Study on Space Settlement.
We were so wonderfully optimistic even in the midst of the Vietnam defeat and aftermath of the Watergate revelations.
It is an interesting social thought experiment to turn recent experiences of terrorism toward this thinking, and wonder how
10,000 people would be screened to prevent technological catastrophe, or how greed would be averted given the unfathomable
differences in wealth between some and most. As well it may be argued that the bouyancy of space settlement could have
lifted or prevented the sense of conflict and despair felt by too much of our cohort on Earth today.
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- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EERE): http://www.eere.energy.gov/ EERE is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, and managed by the
National Renewable Energy Laboratory. EERE provides links to energy efficiency and renewable energy programs of the U.S. Department
of Energy and other organizations. Information products of the Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Clearinghouse (EREC),
such as factsheets, information and reference briefs, and a glossary of energy terms, can be viewed and downloaded from the
Consumer Info section of the main EERE page. (updated 12/20/2005)
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- Center for Renewable Energy and Sustainable Technology (CREST), 1200 18th Street NW, Suite 900, Washington, DC 20036; Phone: (202) 530-2202;
Fax: (202) 887-0497; Email: info@crest.org . A wide variety of information, databases and Web links to other organizations
are available at this site.
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- National Renewable Energy Lab News : http://www.nrel.gov/news/ Editions of the State Renewable Energy News are available from this
site. The newsletters are prepared under the auspices of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC)
Subcommittee on Renewable Energy, to promote information sharing on state-level renewable energy activities, with sponsorship
from the US Department of Energy, Office of Power Technologies.
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- Energy Efficiency: How to do it! http://www.crest.org/efficiency/
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- World-wide Information System for Renewable Energy (WIRE): http://wire2.ises.org/wire/wire.nsf WIRE is a non-profit initiative that is a source of information resources
and tools for the renewable energy community. WIRE is a free information system based on Lotus Notes. It is not a web site,
but more like an intranet database that can be accessed globally.
- American Solar Energy Society (ASES) 2400 Central Avenue, Suite
G-1, Boulder, CO 80301 Phone: (303) 443-3130; Fax: (303) 443-3212 Email: mailto:ases@ases.org
- World Wide Web: http://www.ases.org/
- National Technical Information Service (NTIS) 5285 Port Royal Road,
Springfield, VA 22161 Phone: (800) 553-6847 or (703) 605-6000; Fax: (703) 605-6900 NTIS adds charges for shipping and handling.
- World Wide Web: http://www.ntis.gov
- Public Citizen Publications Department, 1600 20th Street, NW, Washington,
DC 20009 Phone: (202) 588-1000
- World Wide Web: http://www.citizen.org
- Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) Two Brattle Square, Cambridge,
MA 02238-9105 Phone: (617) 547-5552; Fax (617) 864-9405 Email: mailto:ucs@ucsusa.org
- World Wide Web: http://www.ucsusa.org
- U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) New Orders, Superintendent
of Documents P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954 Phone Orders: (202) 512-1800
- World Wide Web: http://www.gpo.gov
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Use these sites at your own risk; no warranty.
Like with anything "on the internet" use good sense.
And don't believe everything you hear. You (or more likely, another scientist)
HAS tested or CAN test your hypothesis. Think realistically, statistically and probablistically, yes... but superstitiously,
dogmatically and inferentially: not so much.
I am providing this information as an individual, and this message is not to be construed as a position statement by my former, current, or future employers nor any other entity.
Houston, Harris County, TX, USA (Google"failure" somtimes)
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