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    A Japanese Team Plans to Build a 6,800-Mile Solar Ring Belt on the Moon to Power the Earth 24/7
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    A Japanese Team Plans to Build a 6,800-Mile Solar Ring Belt on the Moon to Power the Earth 24/7

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    2. tenkawa7 on

      Why on gods gray moon would you put it on the moon? Wouldn’t the Lagrange points be better?

    5. KitchenDepartment on

      Absolutely genius! Lets pay the enormous cost of sending solar panels to space. Then put them in the only place in the earth-moon system where the sun only shines for half of the day. The only place where extreme cold is a concern. And the only place where dust is magnetic and sticks to electronics.

      Even if you had a magic wand and built this facility out of thin air it doesn’t even do the basic thing they want to achieve. Which is to “generate energy around the clock”. You can only generate energy whenever the moon covers your half of the planet.

    6. pbmadman on

      I plan on taking a nuclear submarine to Jupiter. All I need is one more person to be in on this and we can call ourselves a team. Out team has the same chances of success as this moon belt team.

    8. SoggyFist on

      Wouldn’t want to be living near one of the receiving stations, especially first thing in the morning when the aim may be a little off.

    12. Abject-Picture on

      Nowhere in the story does anyone mention micrometeorites. They don’t get through Earth’s atmosphere, the moon however…what elementary class thought of this?

    15. Patrickme on

      That is a very… ambitious plan, I wonder about the cost of maintenance though. On the moon debris that burns up in our atmosphere would burn up against those panels, right?

    17. aleopardstail on

      I have a plan to win the lottery

      I suspect my plan is more realistic

      I don’t buy lottery tickets

    18. Zealousideal-Bike483 on

      I used to work at an architecture firm and we called types of less-than-quarter-baked projects Rendering Competitions. It wasn’t a design in any functional sense of the word

    23. Lobster9 on

      Japanese team hopes to take millions in cash from clueless investors after paid article blitz.

    24. Major_Shlongage on

      No, they do not plan on doing this. Let’s stop posting these ridiculous stories that will never happen.

    25. 400Volts on

      Every time something like this is posted I must remind people that generating enough power to supply the whole world is relatively easy. Transporting power over long distances is very hard

    26. gubigubi on

      This is the kind of shit I would find in the old magazine pile in the art room when I was in middleschool.

      Some magazine from the 1980s saying like “We are going to have aluminum blimps that take you to Venus by 2004”.

    32. Nzdiver81 on

      Giant moon “laser”? Someone’s been watching to much Austin Powers or there is a real life Dr Evil behind this project

    33. _marmota_ on

      I’m sure a 13,000 terawatt laser beamed at the earths surface 24/7 will have no untoward impacts