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Solar CP – Deep Space SolvencySolar works in deep space Bryson 96 (Chris, writer @ Christian Science Monitor, 12/17/96, http://www.animatedsoftware.com/cassini/crbryson.htm) JPG NASA's game of nuclear Russian roulette with Cassini may be unnecessary. In April 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) reported dramatic new advances in solar cells for "use in future demanding deep-space missions." ESA was studying solar power because the American nuclear RTG technology used on the NASA space flights was unavailable in Europe. The new silicon cells jointly developed by DASA in Germany and CISE in Italy, had a record 25% efficiency in the extreme cold and reduced sunlight of simulated deep-space conditions, ESA said. Last year, ESA physicist Carla Signorini told the newspaper Florida Today that, "if given the money to do the work, within five years ESA could have solar cells ready to power a space mission to Saturn." Its more efficient than any other type of propulsion Rosin and Grossman 96 (Carol – Coordinator of the World Space Commission and Karl – Journalism prof @ the State U of NY and author of "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed To Know About Nuclear Power”, World Citizen News, October/November 1996, http://www.worldservice.org/issues/octnov96/nukes.html) JPG There are alternatives to using plutonium in space. In 1994, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced a breakthrough in the development of "new high performance silicon solar cells for use in future deep-space missions" to replace plutonium-fueled generating systems. Touting a "technology milestone," ESA developed cells with a 25-percent efficiency rate, "the highest efficiency ever reached worldwide." Other ongoing U.S. space nuclear projects include the Sandia National Laboratories' plan to develop nuclear-powered satellites to beam TV signals down to Earth; a proposed Air Force program to use nuclear reactors for power and propulsion for military satellites; and NASA's plans for a nuclear-powered colony on the moon. Solar CP – General/Politics = NBSolar power solves every internal link – avoids the link to politics Grossman 3 (Karl, Journalism prof @ the State U of NY and author of "Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed To Know About Nuclear Power”, April 2003, http://www.zcommunications.org/nukes-in-space-in-columbias-wake-by-karl-grossman) JPG Project Prometheus, would be pushed as scientists in the European Space Agency—ESA, the European counterpart of NASA—and in space industry and at NASA itself have made breakthroughs in developing safer ways of propelling rockets and energizing space probes and planetary landers. This includes solar electric propulsion and the use of “solar sails” and other solar technologies that stress the generation of electricity with new high-efficiency solar cells. ESA has been working on the Rosetta project to launch a space probe with all its on-board electricity coming from solar cells with a record 25% efficiency to fly beyond Jupiter and rendezvous with a comet. ESA is “the first space mission to journey beyond the main asteroid belt and rely solely on solar cells for power generation, rather than traditional radioisotope thermal generators”(the plutonium system NASA favors for its space probes). NASA has a division—its Photovoltaics and Space Environment Branch headquartered at the John Glenn Research Center in Cleveland—which, like ESA, has been working on space solar energy development. There is no “edge” or limit to solar power, says a scientist at the branch, Dr. Geoffrey A. Landis, on its website. “In the long term, solar arrays won’t have to rely on the Sun. We’re investigating the concept of using lasers to beam photons to solar arrays. If you make a powerful-enough laser and can aim the beam, there really isn’t any edge of sunshine.” Solar energy technologies are being used now to propel spacecraft. NASA’s Deep Space 1 probe, launched in 1998, is the first space probe to be propelled with solar electric propulsion. There are “solar sails” utilizing ionized particles emitted by the Sun which constitute a force in space. A space device with solar sails built in Russia for the International Planetary Society was launched in 2001. In contrast, NASA’s renewed emphasis on nuclear power in space “is not only dangerous but politically unwise,” says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York. “The only thing that can kill the U.S. space program is a nuclear disaster. The American people will not tolerate a Chernobyl in the sky. That would doom the space program.” “NASA hasn’t learned its lesson from its history involving space nuclear power,” says Kaku, “and a hallmark of science is that you learn from previous mistakes. NASA doggedly pursues its fantasy of nuclear power in space. We have to save NASA from itself.” He cites “alternatives” space nuclear power. “Some of these alternatives may delay the space program a bit. But the planets are not going to go away. What’s the rush? I’d rather explore the universe slower than not at all if there is a nuclear disaster.” Yet despite the dangers and the advances in solar energy technologies and other safe forms of power for use in space, NASA would stress nuclear power. In fact, the situation is not so different from how the Bush administration has been pushing to “revive” nuclear power on Earth despite the availability today of safe, clean, economic, renewable energy technologies. And like terrestrial atomic power, space nuclear power has a problematic past. 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