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You'll need an insane amount of battery storage, since the moon only rotates once per month and you'll need to power through a long period of no sunlight.
by porphyra 2y ago
You'll need an insane amount of battery storage, since the moon only rotates once per month and you'll need to power through a long period of no sunlight.
- Lord-Jobo 2y agoOr just very long power lines and multiple solar stations, it's not like the moon is impossible large. But that would be harder than a singular location using nuclear fuel, it's true.
- dotnet00 2y agoOr alternatively, for polar bases, very tall panels, which would be able to be in permanent sunlight.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> very tall panels, which would be able to be in permanent sunlight Or normal panels on the rim of Shackleton [1]. (You'd still want to bootstrap with fission.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)#Potential_uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shackleton_(crater)#Potential_...
- photochemsyn 2y agoA belt of solar panels encircling the moon would solve that problem though perhaps a bit ambitious at present.