Lunar Solar Panels

Also provides some perspective on the cost savings achieved by using extraterrestrial materials in the construction of the satellite.

Lunar solar panels.

That s right with the help of a lot of exciting research sleepless nights and some of the greatest thinkers in the world sunrun has developed the first ever lunar energy panel systems in the world. However one japanese construction company put forward a plan to make a solar belt to go around the moon. So already it would still be solar power being used just reflected off of the moon first. Silicon dioxide comprising a large component of the lunar rocks and dust can be turned into glass for such a solar thermal system.

Solar power satellite from lunar and asteroidal materials provides an overview of the technological and political developments needed to construct and utilize a multi gigawatt power satellite. The same lunar materials can also be converted into photovoltaic. Electric power generated by a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator could be transmitted and beamed to the earth from the near side of the moon. The advantage of this would be that the moon is constantly in the sun s light except during a lunar eclipse so power could be harnessed 24 7.