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Date: Apr 25 17:13 2008

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...it is time we gave serious consideration to energy from space. It is an old idea and most of the information below is widely available from NASA research. It was initiated after the oil embargo of the mid-1970s when NASA, working with the DOE, began to study alternative energy sources to lessen dependence on foreign oil. Proposed space solar power (SSP) systems consisting of photovoltaic (PV) arrays and mirrors, placed in a geostationary Earth orbit where unaffected by cloud cover, atmospheric dust, or by the Earths day-night cycle, would receive eight times as much sunlight as they would on Earths surface. The energy could be converted and beamed to Earth. Read more __________________

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