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Title: [NSS]Making Space Solar Power Available Globally for Fukushima-Like Emergencies
Post by: Feed Bot on June 29, 2011, 07:09:43 PM

Making Space Solar Power Available Globally for Fukushima-Like Emergencies

[Mumbai, June 26]
Indian news agency PTI reports on a National Space Society plan to provide electricity in case of a Fukushima-type or other emergency.
“Any equipment placed in space is totally immune to fires, earthquakes, floods, volcanoes, tsunamis, hurricanes, tornadoes, local wars and other forms of destruction on the ground,” John K Strickland, who specialises in [...]

Source: Making Space Solar Power Available Globally for Fukushima-Like Emergencies (http://blog.nss.org/?p=2746)