Japanese firm Shimizu Wants to Install Solar Cells on Moon
3 August 2010 | Solar Power | No Comments
Some days ago I heard that a Japanese construction firm named Shimizu, plans to install a belt of solar panels around moon’s equator (Luna Ring project). So close to the sun, these solar cells will generate constantly a huge amount of free energy. In this way, this new technology will eliminate solar cells inefficiency often caused by bad weather and will fullfill all our energy needs.
Solar cells installed on moon’s equator
Ingenious as always, Japanese scientists developed a plan to install these solar cells on the moon and then to send the energy harvested back to earth. First, they thought to transmit the energy to the near side of the moon via cables. There, they planned to convert it into laser and microwaves and sent it to the Earth. On Earth’s surface, all that laser and microwave power will be converted back in electricity using some special energy convertion facilities.
All this work will be done by robots (assembled in space) and a team of astronauts which will support robotic surface operation on site. The solar cells array will be extended like a belt along the entire 11,000km lunar equator with a transportation route in the middle of it for materials transporting. In order to send the microvawe power and laser power to the Earth, scientists have thought to use 20km-diameter antennas.
Source: Shimz
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