Making Solar Panels On The Moon

Solar panels grown on the moon could power the earth.

Making solar panels on the moon.

Consequently pv cells could be constructed from lunar dust fairly easily making it possible to build lunar based solar power lsp not merely to support a few dozen people in a lunar base but. It sounds like a tale from a science fiction novel but a team of japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel. This represents a difference of only 27 times nowhere near the ratio of 170 000 to 1 that would be possible. Of course this idea involves building solar panels on the moon which means we would have people on the moon all the time about six months to a year per person criswell suggests to build and maintain the repair equipment and arrays.

This would make it physically impossible for a solar electric panel array rated at 135 kw to pull five or six kw from the light of a full moon. A ring of solar panels spann around the moon the construction with stretch for 11000 kilometers along the moon s equator and. It also means shipping manufacturing equipment up to the moon. Imagine how much energy we ve collected from a place where the sun never stop shining but how would we even build a solar plant on one japanese company shimizu already has that covered they wanna build a so called lunar and yes it would look just the way it sounds.

The shimizu corporation wants to essentially build a ring of solar panels around the moon s equator and transmitted back to the earth via microwave. Illustration of a solar panel factory on the moon. A robot army to build solar panels on the moon one of 10 insane ideas that just might save the world. And they want to get the project dubbed luna.