Value chain · CLM-1411
In plain terms
In 1978 nobody knew whether animals could graze, or crops be grown, under or around a receiving station, because research on what its microwaves do to people and animals was not finished.
The claim as recorded
In 1978 it was not known whether land under a rectenna, or in its buffer zone, could be grazed or farmed, pending research on microwave effects on humans and animals. The DOE land report says: "Pending the outcome of ongoing research on microwave effects on both humans and animals, it is not known whether any land in the buffer zone or, for that matter, under the rectenna, can be put to productive use, e.g., grazing or other agriculture." It adds that such use "could tend to reduce the amount of land 'effectively withdrawn' from other uses even if the nominal dimensions remained the same."
Evidence behind this: A DOE contractor's 1978 resource and land report; a statement of what was not then known.
Scope and limits
A 1978 STATEMENT OF IGNORANCE: whether the research it awaited settled the question is outside this record (QST-023). It does not distinguish crops from grazing; any reading that crops are the easier case rests on animals and people being in the field, not on this page.
What it assumes
No assumptions are recorded against this claim.
Where it comes from
PDF 88 [78], raw: "Pending the outcome of ongoing research on microwave effects on both humans and animals, it is not known whether any land in the buffer zone or, for that matter, under the rectenna, can be put to productive use, e.g., grazing or other agriculture."; "Such concurrent productive use of rectenna sites could tend to reduce the amount of land" (then "effectively withdrawn" in the layer's quotes).
Related records
- Answers question
- QST-023 not published in this release
Cite this
energyaperture.com/c/clm-1411
CLM-1411, Energy Aperture, as of 1978.