Kalpana one

G'day,

Had a chance to study the Kalpana One paper. Looks good to me but its a
shame to use artificial light for crop raising when theres so much natural
sunlight. Agricultural is by far you main power requirement. A way around
this is to attach solar collectors to the outside of the colony's hull and
divert the sunlight into the agricultural areas with fiber optics. This is
not new but is used in hybrid light systems.

see:

http://www.sunlight-direct.com/

http://www.ornl.gov/sci/solar/

That would cut power requirements from 300 megawatts to 50 megawatts. You
could then dump the powersat and intergrate solar electricity collectors on
a skirt at one end of the habitat.

ta

Ralph