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Mon Feb 8 11:01:44 1982
polar lunar solar power
I can see problems with moon-based solar power stations even at the
poles. If you could get continuous power there, I could maybe see
beaming it to earth from such a close tangent to the lunar surface.
The moon's orbit is the problem. It is not quite in the same plane
as the earth's orbit around the sun. So, the polar regions will
cycle in and out of sunlight on a yearly basis.
Even when the sun lights the pole, it is low on the lunar horizon.
This means that the collectors would have to be huge and/or highly
tilted, relative to the amount of power you'd get. And you would still
have to build a power station at both poles to get year-round power.
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