This commentary by Arthur R. Woods and Marco C. Bernasconi is a slightly updated version which first appeared in Space News – Oct. 2- 8, 1995 There is no need to list the many challenges facing humanity as it enters the next century. Be they environmental, political, economic or social, the problems are both obvious [...]
"To build a bridge is much more than connecting points A and B. It's laying the foundations of a whole new economy" The development and growth of the Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE⊕-LPS) system will build upon several “flywheel effects”, which accelerate each other, build greater momentum, and maintain growth over a long time. [...]
As the 21st century unfolds, humanity finds that it needs more room and more resources to sustain its numbers and to maintain its thirst for further development and knowledge. The finite planetary resources that contributed immensely to its present state are being exhausted to unsustainable levels and their uncontrolled use within the biosphere is resulting [...]
Due to the many assessments and reports issued since 1990 by the United Nation’s IPCC – Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – and the subsequent international commitment to address the climate issue achieved in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change which, as of February 2020 has now been signed by 189 countries, a Climate [...]
Among all of nature’s diverse systems, energy is the principal driver of the increasing complexity of galaxies, stars, planets and life-forms in the expanding universe. Energy flows engendered largely by the expanding cosmos seem to be as universal as anything yet found in nature. Indeed, unlocking Earth's vast energy reserves enabled our species to embark [...]
Here on Earth, human civilization has reached such a point in its development where it has evolved the means to leave its home planet and to begin operating in the environment beyond the atmosphere. Optimistically, this development would enable humanity to utilize this technological capability to harness the infinite resources located off Earth to improve [...]
"If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a Moon." Krafft A. Ehricke, 1984 [1] The Sun-Earth-Moon System of Greater Earth is an interdependent dynamic system that contributed to the emergence and evolution of life on Earth. The region outside Earth’s atmosphere and extending out to just beyond [...]
