Re: Proposed lunar energy storage system
- From: Steve Hix <sehix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 17:54:38 -0800
In article <jBtJf.1134$lR2.404@trndny01>, Nog <q5wtxv28o@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Lunar night? The dark side is always night. The daylight side is always
light. It's rotational period equals it orbital period. Why use combersome
flywheels when solar cells can do the same thing without moving parts. 100
150 watt panels will generate 15 k watts 110/220 volts. 1000 panes will
generate 150 kilowatts. Would it make more sense to bring the technology up
to the moon to manufacture them up there? There is plenty of sand and
silica. It would be full time power since the sun always shines. You could
run power lines to the dark side and illuminate it.
What moon are you talking about? It's not ours.
*Our* moon is tidally locked with the earth, so that one side is always
facing the earth, the other always facing away. (There's a small
percentage that sees the earth a little each month, due to libration.)
The *Sun*, on the other hand, sees all of the moon's surface over a
period of a month, roughly. Which explains why the man in the moon never
moves, but the changing area of illuminations does, giving us the
visible phases of the moon each month.
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