An International Solar Energy Development Decade: A Proposal for Global Cooperation

While there are many technical problems that remain to be solved in setting up a solar energy space system … all of the pertinent basic physical principles needed to do so are probably now known. Building stations in space is already envisioned by both the Russians and the Americans. … In all, the probability of having giant solar energy satellites operational within the decade appears much greater than that of placing men on the moon appeared to be at the beginning of the 1960s. Tom Stonier is director of the Peace Studies Program at Manhattan College, Bronx, New York. © 1972 Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists.