Asri-unix.709 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:C70:sri-unix!POURNE@MIT-MC Sun Feb 7 03:22:28 1982 half-time power from the moon Not if they are at the poles they don't. (that's the answer; the question was, don't lunar power stations cease to function two weeks of the month?) Of course a non-polar lunar colony would indeed need either a good energy storage system, or a good generation system; if you put it up in a large whack, say by ORION, then a small nuclear power plant would probably be the right thing to have for a colony. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.