Space & Solar Baseline Power: Days of Future Past

With Stewart Brand's new book, "Whole Earth Discipline: An Ecopragmatist Manifesto" coming out in October 2009, and being it mentions orbital solar power stations, thought i would post some "1970's" stuff.
This takes me back i tell you. Anyway, the neat thing about solar power stations in orbit is primarily it gets around the "baseline problem" of solar power on a planet where its inhabitants created an electrical power grid that is also the "storage" of the power. Of course, the efficiencies are higher also, etc.

Here is an archival site from the heady days before the U.S. Shuttle was built, dooming us to (with the exception of the Hubble), watching cute tricks in Short Attention Span Theatre.* Those of you into ecological design, sustainability, etc. will find it to be a nice idea generator/cook book also.
Solar power satellite is scattered around it.

The keeper of the flame on this for the last few decades, is here, Al Globus

Here is an introductory section on orbital solar power stations.

* This comment is in no way meant to denigrate the lives and memories the brave folk from our species who have crewed that kludge.