International Peer Review Results of European Work on Solar Power from Space
- Paper number
IAC-05-C3.1.06
- Author
Dr. Leopold Summerer, European Space Agency (ESA)/ESTEC, The Netherlands
- Year
2005
- Abstract
In 2003 and 2004, the first phase of the European programme plan for solar power from space was conducted. The different studies focussed on two main objectives: 1. Comparison of space based and terrestrial based solar power plant solutions; and 2. solar power satellites and wireless power transmission for space applications and space exploration. The main results of the studies, performed by European industry and in the first case under the leadership of independent European energy consultants have already been reported and published. The comparison of the summary results obtained during this first phase with results published by Japanese and the US research groups have shown some significant differences that called for a more thorough technical data comparison. This paper reports the results of a detailed Japanese peer review of the results and methods of the first phase of the European SPS programme plan.
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