Nukes & solar panels Forum: SSI-List
Thread: Nukes & solar panels
# 14471 byCharles Radley on March 29, 2001, 10:29 p.m.
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> see, is the size of the lunar reciever. If memory serves, most SPS concepts
> involved using a ground based reciever several Km in diametre. Manufacturing
> something like that would be a nightmare for a small lunar base. I suppose that
type system over 40,000 km would be a few gigawatts. Not worth doing
until the base needs reach that size. The recetennas would actually be
fairly simple to make. Schottky diodes would be shipped from Earth,
the rest is metallic chicken wire, robots would manufacture it and lay
it out.
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