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Archive for September, 2007

Where’s the Final Report?

Posted by Coyote on September 15, 2007

Space-Based Solar Power Advocates and Critics,

September 15th is here…so where’s the final report from the National Security Space Office that was promised???

There won’t be any. Well, not a final report, and not by close of business today.

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Posted in Space Solar Power news, Study-Related | 22 Comments »

“Why is the DoD interested in this?” Security at all levels!

Posted by Coyote on September 1, 2007

Yesterday at one of my alternate work locations (okay…another one of D.C.’s Irish pubs) a space skeptic asked me to write down all the security reasons that explain why the DoD is interested in space-based solar power. Fair enough. So this is what I wrote on the bar napkin: (I share it with you because that’s what I do!)

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Posted in International Partnerships for Space-Based Solar Power, Study-Related, Technical Challenges to Space-Based Solar Power | 42 Comments »