SciScoop || Comments Space Solar Power for Moon and Earth: "By apsmith, Section Commentary
Posted on Mon Jul 7th, 2003 at 10:09:11 PM PST

At this year's International Space Development Conference, Saturday, May 24, was the main day for the Moon track, which I had coordinated (representing the Moon Society). The morning sessions covered use of lunar resources for space solar power systems, with the morning plenary talk given by David Criswell of the University of Houston. Criswell's proposal has been around in one form or another for about 20 years now, but received significant publicity last year after the California energy crisis and his publication of a summary of the proposal in the April/May 2002 issue of The Industrial Physicist. Criswell also contributed to an article published in Science magazine last November, which concluded that the only reasonable options to provide power to the Earth through the next century are fusion and space-based solar power. "

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