SRC-526

Preliminary Comparative Assessment of Land Use for the Satellite Power System (SPS) and Alternative Electric Energy Technologies; DOE/ER-0054; April 1980

D.E. Newsom and T.D. Wolsko, Argonne National Laboratory, Integrated Assessments and Policy Evaluations Group ·1980 · T3 government or agency report · XC02 XC03

Commissioned by U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Energy Research, Satellite Power System Project Division; Under Contract No. 31-109-ENG-38. Who paid for a study is recorded because it bears on how its conclusions should be read, not because it makes them wrong.

Identifiers: DOE/ER-0054 the identifier this document is registered under

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CLM-1052 In 1980 the programme's own numbers had a receiving site of about 200 square kilometres per satellite once a safety margin was included, roughly the same land per unit of energy as ground solar of the day and far more than a coal or nuclear plant, but with no mines or waste sites behind it; and the authors said not to add the columns up.

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