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Show HERALD, Provo. Utah. Thursday, October 36-- THE Page 5 1978 Can Technology Solve the Energy Crisis? Aerospace Company Comes Up With Plan SEATTLE NEA Throughout the decade technicians have insisted that the energy crisis is a short term discombobulation that science will eventually solve. The argument has been that the nation need only to set the goal, as it did for lunar travel, and organized knowledge will triumph. Now the Boeing Aerospace Company believes it haT i plan to justify this optimism. The firm says the United States, indeed the world, can get all of the electrical power it will ever need by deploying gigantic space satellites to harness solar energy and send it to earth for power lines distribution. The plan is startling in scope. So much so that Boeing is worried it may be ignored because of its "concept shock." Yet the company's executives contend that if the U S acts now to fill the skies with solar power satellites, the country could be all but energy sufficient by the year 2000. By stages, the Proposal is this: First. Boeing would have the nation construct a mammoth spacebase in orbit. Company scientists believe the nation has the ability, yet untested, to launch as much as one million pounds of construction material a year, and then bolt it together high above the weather and other vagarities of earth. In this case the construction material would be bolted to form satellites of staggering dimensions. SPS manager Ralph Nansen says the satellites would be 20 miles long and nearly four miles Sex Discrimination Remains Governmental Report Claims WASHINGTON (UPI) Wives who take jobs to supplement their family's budget face nothing but disincentives from the government, says a Justice Department Task Force or. Sex Discrimination. The task force, in an interim report to the White House Tuesday, said sex discrimination in government policies is pervasive and the poor appear to be hit hardest. The report cites these inequities: Welfare mothers who want to work must take a back seat to welfare fathers. In families where the husband earns $10,000, the yearly tax is $757. If' the wife takes a job paying $5,000, the family's tax will soar to $1,701 meaning her tax will be 125 percent the size of her husband's on half his salary. If a husband earns $800 a month, his family's Social Security benefits on retirement will be $786 a month. But if the husband earns $600 and the wife gets a job earning low-inco- fair share of policymaking positions. a lose the federal government, even if at the time women ere not allowed to serve in the military. -- The 1964 civil rights act prohibits various kinds of discrimination but not sex discimination in federally assisted husband. programs. 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Unless agencies hire women from outside kL ENTIRE STOCK LEATHER FUR TRIM LADIES ROBES COATS 20 II government to jobs, it said, it will take at least a generation for 79 OFF top-lev- current UNITED STATES can get all of the electrical power it will ever need by constructing gisst space satellites to harness solar energy, claims Boeing likewise in as little as 5 years. its. Total expenditures for the Besides, the cost would largly be an industry problem; the SPS plan is a comprogram: well over $1 trillion. there are Clearly, sobering questions mercial venture, and Boeing says only a minimum of tax money would be regarding the plan for solar power satellites. But Boeing's officers believe used. Ralph Nansen insists the SPS is not the idea is sound, safe and workable. The company says that if government science fiction. He says if the program and private industry work together, the begins now solar satellites could be first SPS could be in orbit and manufac- lighting and heating American homes at about the time the world is due to turing power as early as 1990. As for costs, SPS manager Nansen run out of oil. Who knows, he suggests, says the first satellite would pay for maybe the Arabs would then have to itself in 22 years, and others would do import their energy from us. LADIES SPORTSWEAR that found o rdS.r'SVSnJ number have agreed to do so. the SPS electricity would be sent to earth in the form of microwave energy. The microwaves wouid be transmitted in prodigious amounts, throughout much of the nation, but Nansen says they would be safe: "The maximum intensity would be well within standards established by law." On earth, the microwaves would be received by rectifying antennas, also enormous. The antennas would look like chain link fencing, built on tall poles, and they would likely cover as much as 60 square miles of ground. Nansen believes the land under the antennas could be used for farming or grazing. And there it is. Boeing says a single satellite could transmit 10,000 megawatts of power annually, enough to supply the city of Chicago or the state of Florida with present needs. Nansen adds that 45 satellites would provide as much electrical energy as is currently generated in the U.S. Not that the system is ready to be deployed tomorrow. Though Boeing says SPS technology exists, and "there are no feasibility barriers to the idea." there is a decided lack of SPS experience. For one thing, the nation has not yet built Tinker Toys, much less satellites, in the reaches of the cosmos. Then too, there is an absence of precedence for sending oceans of microwaves through space. Planners say the beams would be safe for birds to fly through but what if the birds fly through 50 or 5,000 times? The truth is no one yet knows what the long term microwave impact would be on earth. Finally, there is the cost of the SPS proposal Technicians believe it would cost $84 billion to develop and construct one operational satellite. The rest of the stations would cost some $20 billion apiece, or $900 billion for 45 un- mm t and out to veterans seeking employment or advancement in Ms. Oneglia said besides hitting working women, the laws also discriminate against women in other ways: A wife is not required to be notified if her mortgage is foreclosed or if her tax return is deficient, but she faces the same liabilities as her $200, their combined Social Security benefits drop to $669. I The task force con-- , eluded on reviewing the practices of 63 federal agencies that women still ; are facing widespread sex discrimination in - policies as well as in hir-- ; ing and promotion prac-- ; tices. But it said agencies now seem more willing to make needed changes, Women wide the area of a small city, On earth such structures would weigh between 88.000 and 110,000 tons apiece. The satellites woald be shingled with either solar cells or thermal engines it's not now certain which would be the better. Either way. the devices would absorb power from the sun and convert it into "direct current" electricity. Nansen says the SPSs would, in effect, "be electrically alive." This electrification process would be almost continuous. The solar satellites would sit in a geosynchronous (fixed) orbit at 22,000 miles above the oceans. 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