[Salgak]

Solar Power Satellites have been a workable concept since the 1970s, AND the economics are compelling: payback of initial investment within 25 years AND generating a self-bootstrapping industrial structure in space.

It's a win-win situation all around.

I'll quote Dr. Jerry Pournelle on space investment:

"It's raining soup out there. Time to invest in making some bowls. . . "

[theFIRMbss]

>Solar Power Satellites have been a workable concept ... "It's raining soup out there. Time to invest in making some bowls. . . "

Remember that scene
in Young Frankenstein, when the
blind guy pours hot soup

in the monster's lap?
Wait until you feel the heat
from the microwave

transfer beams when they
go off target a little...
Whole cities could die...