Asri-unix.670 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!menlo70!sri-unix!REM@MIT-MC Mon Feb 1 23:43:40 1982 Nuts --> Lunar solar-power station From: Robert Elton Maas I think it's much easier to build large structures in space than on the Moon, because you can just float out things via automated beam-builders and not have to sorry about supporting the equipment against gravity nor even about the hills and valleys you'd have to traverse if you built it on the moon. Even if you build it ok, you have to beam the energy back about ten times the distance (225,000 miles instead of only 25,000 miles) and somehow re-direct it to a single place on Earth that will receive it. But it's a idea worth studying. Maybe I'm wrong and it's a good idea. Experts should add up all the costs and benefits and compare with the geosync and polarsync proposals and settle the matter by means other than my speculation. Has anybody seriously studied lunar-based SPS? ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.