Time to get on the stump..

Yes, and the way to implement SSP is with Sunsat Corp. - a
public/private corporation TOTALLY FOCUSSED on building SSP. Just like
Comsat Corp., chartered in 1962, was TOTALLY FOCUSSED on building
communications satellites.

This is the subject of the second of the two papers I am scheduled to
give at the Solar Power Satellite section at the joint NSS/Planetary
Society meeting in LA May 4-7; those 2 abstracts are at John Mankins'
Solar Power Satellites session:

"Why We Must Build Space Solar Power
&
"How We Must Build Space Solar Power: Sunsat Corporation

http://isdc.xisp.net/~kmiller/isdc_archive/isdc.php?link=sessionSelectCurrentChair

The most recent chapters posted on our SSPW website (April 11)

http://www.sspi.gatech.edu

are a draft chapter on Photovoltaics and Naoki Shinohara's second
Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) draft. Naoki's SSPW chapter is longer
but extracted from the more edited SPS white paper which originated
with Naoki et al at Kyoto University, posted as URSI's SPS white paper at

http://www.ursi.org/WP/WP_SPS_051129.doc

URSI is an international "competitor" to IEEE, which has not been
active on WPT in recent years.

Will you be at ISDC? Regardless, come join our campaign to get
SunSat chartered.
Cheers,
Darel Preble
chair, SSPW
Psalms 19:4-5
P.S. Another good article on methane is
"Methane Flux From Arctic Tundras: It's The Hydrology, Stupid!"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/04/060404200308.htm