Nukes & solar panels

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Thread: Nukes & solar panels

# 14472 byCharles Radley on March 29, 2001, 10:29 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

>
> Power storage on the Moon is no problem at all; because just about all the
> current manned Moon architectures put the base at the Lunar poles (around
> Shackleton Crater at the south pole is considered particularly appealing)

The poles are a limited resource.

> where the Sun is lower in the sky, the 14 day day/night cycle simply doesn't
> apply. There's a peak (colloquially known as the Peak of Eternal Light; & a
> target of the abandoned Euromoon 2000 proposal) near Shackleton - which in

Not enough for large scale development.

>
> It really makes more sense to build your solar panels using in situ material
> on the Moon & beam upwards rather than the other way around.
>

Yes. We could put a microwave relay station at L-1. Beam power from
daylight
areas up to L1 and retransmit it to rectennas in the night tinme areas.

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