Lunar Solar Panels

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.

Lunar solar panels.

The technology has been developed in the 80 s of last century will provide us with an abundance of cheap clean energy. 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. 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. So already it would still be solar power being used just reflected off of the moon first.

The same lunar materials can also be converted into photovoltaic. Also provides some perspective on the cost savings achieved by using extraterrestrial materials in the construction of the satellite. However one japanese construction company put forward a plan to make a solar belt to go around the moon. Nasa was researching building solar panel satellites on earth and stationing them in orbit to provide clean energy and was about to abandon this project because of the high cost until they discovered they had a free satellite with most of the production material for solar panels available on this satellite called the moon.