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: The Climate Parables: Reporting from the Future

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The Future of Space-Based Solar Power

The future is now, and we're about to be joined by our panel of experts who are here to take us from these fictional worlds we heard about into some of the real science, engineering, and politics behind them. Weight Gibbs: Where did this idea of space-based solar power come from, and what's the current state of the science and engineering that's needed to make it a reality? Mark Alpert: I'm proud to report that the concept of space solar power was invented by a science fiction author, Isaac Asma in 1941.

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