[ExI] Solar power from the moon

Eugen Leitl eugen at leitl.org
Mon May 23 19:50:09 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 04:11:42PM -0300, Henrique Moraes Machado (CI) wrote:
> This Tetsuji Yoshida guy wants to build a solar panel ring around moon's  
> equator and beam energy to Earth. I think something like this already was 
> avented on this list. Doesn't it?

SPS is 1968 vintage idea, and the Moon figured pretty prominently
early on (well predating http://www.isso.uh.edu/criswell/papers.html ).

I'm pretty sure using LEO constellations of selenic orign and launch
and phased-array beamforming is at least early 1980s. It's certainly
straightforward enough.

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