Solar Power Satellites: A Space Energy System for Earth

by Katinka I. Csigi, Peter E. Glaser, Frank P. Davidson

This book creates awareness of the potential global benefits of power from space. It discusses space power options based on wireless power transmission (WPT) to meet global energy demands and to reduce reliance on fossil and nuclear fuels. It also discusses the current and emerging international regulatory and legal regimes to enable the realization of the solar power satellite concept Earth orbits, and on the moon.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047196817X
• ISBN13: 9780471968177
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 694 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.