Program Assessment Report Statement of Findings - Satellite Power Systems Concept Development and Evaluation Program
Authors not listed · 1980
The assessment identified a key question about the quantitative risk of long-term low-level microwave exposure from space-based solar power but did not answer it.
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The report states what is known, uncertain, and unknown about the Solar Power Satellite concept of collecting solar energy in space and delivering it to Earth for baseload electricity. The Concept Development and Evaluation Program aimed to develop an initial understanding of the technical feasibility, economic practicality, and social and environmental acceptability of the SPS concept by the end of 1980. A reference system was defined using a 2.45 GHz microwave beam with a power density of 23 mW/cm2 at the center and 0.1 mW/cm2 at the exclusion zone fence line.
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@article{program_assessment_report_statement_of_findings_satellite_power_systems_concept__g4412,
author = {Unknown},
title = {Program Assessment Report Statement of Findings - Satellite Power Systems Concept Development and Evaluation Program},
year = {1980},
}