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Good but it should probably be mentioned that solar power production and transmission from geostationary orbit (where the sunlight is nearly constant) would wor
by Nomentatus 4y ago
Good but it should probably be mentioned that solar power production and transmission from geostationary orbit (where the sunlight is nearly constant) would work better and have the same positional advantage. Costs have to be considered, of course.
I still kinda like the idea of dropping a few nukes on crater rims at one of the poles to reduce the height necessary to get to perpetual sunlight though.
- Waterluvian 4y agoI know there’s methods for transmitting solar from orbit to ground, but this made me think about the sci-fi idea of orbiting mainframes that transmit the data to simple terminals.
- more_corn 4y agoI think space based solar is probably the way to go. Starship will make launch so cheap it’ll be worth getting the panels into perpetual sunlight.
- drpyser22 4y agoAccording to the article author it requires costly infrastructure on the moon, compared to their proposal of beaming energy through microwave from Earth.
- Nomentatus 4y agoSpace based solar would also use microwaves to beam the energy to the moon.
- AtlasBarfed 4y agoOr can you just put some space mirrors in to redirect sunlight to panels on the moon? Maybe even concentrate it?
- Nomentatus 4y agoMight be still simpler at that. 'Specially if you build the solar panels on the moon from lunar materials, and there is lots of silicon there, yup.