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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Nov 30^th, 2013 at 12:18pm http://qz.com/152384/japans-plan-to-supply-all-the-worlds-energy-from-a-giant-so... I would have thought the flaw in this plan was pushing the moon out of orbit....!??!
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Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon?
Reply #1 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 1:13pm

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 12:18pm:

http://qz.com/152384/japans-plan-to-supply-all-the-worlds-energy-from-a-giant-so...

I would have thought the flaw in this plan was pushing the moon out of orbit....!??!

I doubt there'd be enough energy. My concern would be with the necessarily high-energy microwave beam aimed at the Earth.

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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #2 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 1:19pm How do we contact dr karl and not the forum that he has nothing to do with? The forum could probably tell us but surely it would be much more fun hearing it on the forklift at work
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #3 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 2:24pm I think I prefer my world-wide solar network linked with HVDC idea, For one thing, it's cheaper.
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #4 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 2:45pm muso wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 2:24pm: I think I prefer my world-wide solar network linked with HVDC idea, For one thing, it's cheaper. For shizzle,... that's where the game has to go but they are worried about sabotage so the plot doth remaineth quite sticky and very very thick
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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #5 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 4:25pm I guess there is more than one way to crack a nut.
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #6 - Nov 30^th, 2013 at 5:31pm Please don't tell me that's a nutcracker!??!
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Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon?
Reply #7 - Dec 5^th, 2013 at 9:00pm

# wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 1:13pm:

BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 12:18pm:

http://qz.com/152384/japans-plan-to-supply-all-the-worlds-energy-from-a-giant-so...

I would have thought the flaw in this plan was pushing the moon out of orbit....!??!

I doubt there'd be enough energy. My concern would be with the necessarily high-energy microwave beam aimed at the Earth.

Yes, that would be a far more pressing concern.

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muso Gold Member Offline Posts: 13151 Gladstone, Queensland Gender:	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #8 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 5:27am BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 5:31pm: Please don't tell me that's a nutcracker!??! It's an unnecessarily complicated nutcracker, just like the lunar solar panel idea.
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #9 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 2:12pm muso wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 5:27am: BatteriesNotIncluded wrote on Nov 30^th, 2013 at 5:31pm: Please don't tell me that's a nutcracker!??! It's an unnecessarily complicated nutcracker, just like the lunar solar panel idea. Attack with ideas they say
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Frances Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 3577 In a Castle in the Hills Gender:	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #10 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 4:21pm If you wanted to cut costs with transmitting the energy back to earth, you could use copper cables joined together and covered by plastic bags....
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BatteriesNotIncluded Gold Member Offline MediocrityNET: because people died for this! Posts: 26966	Re: 400 km wide solar panel array on moon? Reply #11 - Dec 6^th, 2013 at 4:32pm Frances wrote on Dec 6^th, 2013 at 4:21pm: If you wanted to cut costs with transmitting the energy back to earth, you could use copper cables joined together and covered by plastic bags.... I think that is the first time you've honestly made me laugh!
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