Solar power Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: Solar power
# 90 bymikecombs@... on Nov. 28, 2000, 1:42 p.m.
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From: Tom Tucker (Olympia) [mailto:tntucker@...]
light into the colony to grow food and fiber. Mirrors to concentrate energy
for high temperature boilers or processing will be needed too. Solar panels
can and should be mounted externally so the colony may look a little like a
flower with the residence at the center. :-)
In fact, one of the designs which can be seen in "The High Frontier" was
named "Sunflower".
Rgds,
Mike Combs
From:
Tom Tucker (Olympia) [mailto:tntucker@...]
Regarding solar, much of the area will be consumed by mirrors reflecting light into the colony to grow food and fiber. Mirrors to concentrate energy for high temperature boilers or processing will be needed too. Solar panels can and should be mounted externally so the colony may look a little like a flower with the residence at the center. :-)
In fact, one of the designs which can be seen in "The High Frontier" was named "Sunflower".
Rgds,
Mike Combs