Chapter One     "Climate Change - Nutritional Impacts"  explains how the food we eat is slowly changing due to rising CO2

Chapter two     "Climate Change - Weather Impacts"  explains and explores  the escalating impact of forced climate changes.

"Climate Report: Droughts, starvation, disease"  IPCC second report (draft)

Introduction to  Part II - The Keys to SSP  Showing the ready availability of the tools and technology needed for SSP

Chapter 5  Space Transportation - 2007 (rev.) Why the new space transportation industry is ready for SSP.

NASA awards $50 million to commercial spaceflight builders by JoAnne Allen Feb 2, 2010 Washington -- NASA awarded $50 million to five private firms in a first step to implement President Obama's vision of turning over space transportation to the commercial sector. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said, “We are not abandoning human space flight by any stretch of the imagination. … This represents the entrance of the entrepreneurial mind-set into a field that is poised for rapid growth and new jobs." There's more ... Is NASA's New Space Plan Really that Radical? By Clara Moskowitz Mar 2, 2010 -- President Barack Obama's new plan for NASA has been met with some anger and confusion in the weeks since its announcement, drawing sharp objections from critics who view it as a radical vision change for the space agency that would upset the world leadership of the United States in space. But similar shifts have occurred throughout NASA's more than 50-year history, and some space experts counter that this new plan — which would use commercial spacecraft to fly astronauts in space instead of government spacecraft — is no more radical than those previous changes.  There's More... Boston Globe, Nature, New York Times Editorial Boards Among Others Welcome New NASA Plan  By John Gedmark  Feb 24, 2010 -- Since President Obama’s plan for NASA was released on February 1st, a bipartisan group including governors, former legislators, astronauts, former NASA senior managers and half a dozen editorial boards has endorsed the new NASA plan.  Op-eds: Gov. Bill Richardson, “Commercial Spaceflight: Creating 21st Century Jobs,”  There's More...

Chapter 6 - Photovoltaics (Solar Cells) draft

Chapter 7 -  Wireless Power  Transfer draft

URSI White Paper on Solar Power Satellites

Chapter Ten -  Draft legislation to charter a  Sunsat Corporation

	kjCurrent 2010 letters to Congress
PLEASE  WRITE  your Congressman to charter SunSat Corporation! We need clean baseload Space Solar Power!	Letter to Congressman Henry Brown(SC-1)
	Letter to Congressman Gus Bilirakis (FL-9)
	Letter to Congressman Davis Scott (GA-13)
	Jan 2008 Letter from SSPW requesting  Congress charter a Space Power Corporation

The next Chapter

Space Solar Power must prepare to play an important role in space development. What is that role? While a space power company should be fully focused on delivering clean baseload power to its customers on Earth, it may very well be that products mined and manufactured from lunar regolith may one day be commercially competitive with Earth-sourced hardware. A Lunar Development Authority, for example, an organization of cooperative lunar developers, may speed development of the Moon's resources.This chapter will evaluate how SSP should cooperate with while not being harmed by these and other critical space development agencies, corporations and dynamic interactions. We will publish essays here, at  (email: SunsatMinutemen@googlegroups.com  or visit: http://groups.google.com/group/SunsatMinutemen.)  and elsewhere on these perspectives.

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