Nukes & solar panels

>
> In a message dated 3/29/01 11:31:10 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> cfrjlr@... writes:
>
> 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.
> >>
> Couldn't we get enough 24 hour sunlight to equal the collecting area of 1 SPS
> in orbit? Its 5 miles by 20 miles, aren't there enough mountain tops and

Note that the angle of the Sun is not normal to the surface.

So the effective collection area is considerably reduced.

The solar panels would have to be standing vertical, 90 degrees to the
surface, and rotating to
track the Sun. So the limit on collection area is how tall can we make
the solar panels on this platform ?
If we are optimistc and say 100 metres, and all the other engineering
challenges can be solved,
then the effective collection ara is 0.1 x 8 km = 0.8 square
kilometres. Not much to be excited about, and rather expensive to
construct such an array, compared to lying it flat on the lunar surface.

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