Engineers at Japanese construction firm Shimizu have dreamed up a plan for harnessing solar energy from the moon. It’s a large-scaled, seemingly inconceivable plan that involves remote-controlled robots building thousands of photovoltaic panels out of moon dirt, assembling the panels into a gigantic lunar girdle belt, and laser-beaming 220 terawatts of annually collected voltage toward Earth.
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It would be the Japanese…
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whaaaaaaaaa?!? This is such bullshit. On...similar note, I read yesterday that the US...
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Solar power, right guys? Who’s against it? Not us. People who like gardening tend be a fan of solar power. And yet,...
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Better/cheaper idea: a solar-thermal driven generator. Because the sun takes 27 days to complete a rotation and because...
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Even if it happens do you honestly believe that electricity would be cheaply available?
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It’s been a while since my last physics class. Isn’t wireless electricity horrendously inefficient?
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