September 16th, 2011
utnereader
Zoom 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. You seem skeptical … Keep reading …

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.

You seem skeptical … Keep reading …

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  1. 0-t-h-e-r-s-i-d-e reblogged this from yewknee
  2. youreoutofyourelementdonnie reblogged this from caitlindavis and added:
    It would be the Japanese…
  3. mariahsea reblogged this from sproutrobot and added:
    whaaaaaaaaa?!? This is such bullshit. On...similar note, I read yesterday that the US...
  4. sproutrobot reblogged this from yewknee and added:
    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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  16. exercisesinnarcissism reblogged this from utnereader and added:
    This is… I don’t even….
  17. majere616 reblogged this from jensenjaundice and added:
    Even if it happens do you honestly believe that electricity would be cheaply available?
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  21. irritatingnerd reblogged this from yewknee and added:
    It’s been a while since my last physics class. Isn’t wireless electricity horrendously inefficient?
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