SRC-052

URSI White Paper on Solar Power Satellite (SPS) Systems (in The Radio Science Bulletin, No. 321, June 2007)

Published claims resting on this source

• CLM-0032 In 2007 the international radio science union published a white paper saying that nobody had measured this heating effect from the ground at these frequencies, and only calculations existed. The 1978 figure was repeated not in that white paper but in the longer report attached to it, which is a separate document.
• CLM-0137 In four major space solar power studies from 1978 to 2007, none put a number on how much of the beam's energy would be lost if the beam sets up fine stripes of uneven density in the upper atmosphere; they mention the concern but do not measure or calculate it.

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