Making Solar Panels On The Moon

It sounds like a tale from a science fiction novel but a team of japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel.

Making solar panels on the moon.

And they want to get the project dubbed luna. It also means shipping manufacturing equipment up to the moon. Solar panels grown on the moon could power the earth. This would make it physically impossible for a solar electric panel array rated at 135 kw to pull five or six kw from the light of a full moon.

Imagine how much energy we ve collected from a place where the sun never stop shining but how would we even build a solar plant on one japanese company shimizu already has that covered they wanna build a so called lunar and yes it would look just the way it sounds. Putting giant solar panels on the moon or mirrors into lunar orbit would go a long way towards solving the earth s energy problems and climate crisis according to the former astronaut dr helen. A far out plan to create swarms of self replicating solar panel satellites. In 1969 scientists proposed building solar panels on the moon to convert the sun s energy into electricity that can be used on earth.

The shimizu corporation wants to essentially build a ring of solar panels around the moon s equator and transmitted back to the earth via microwave. Consequently pv cells could be constructed from lunar dust fairly easily making it possible to build lunar based solar power lsp not merely to support a few dozen people in a lunar base but. A ring of solar panels spann around the moon the construction with stretch for 11000 kilometers along the moon s equator and. This represents a difference of only 27 times nowhere near the ratio of 170 000 to 1 that would be possible.