Solar Panels Grown On The Moon

Right now you can only get home grown panels from companies like sandbar solar electric so this seems quite novel.

Solar panels grown on the moon.

It talks about how solar panels grown on the moon can be used to power the earth in coming years. Earth orbit doesn t have a whole lot of resources for building all those robots so instead we could send the self replicating machine to the moon lewis weber suggests. The sun is a colossal source of energy a tiny fraction of which is converted these are still concepts at the moment but i believe they are. A far out plan to create swarms of self replicating solar panel satellites.

Of late a paper published in the new space journal has grabbed interest of many scientists researchers and even commoners. Of course this idea involves building solar panels on the moon which means we would have people on the moon all the time about six months to a year per person criswell suggests to build and maintain the repair equipment and arrays. Like multiplying rabbits the population of solar panel satellites would grow exponentially covering the size of nevada in a few months or years. To power entire world with solar power we would need to cover an area that s 92 percent the size of nevada in solar panels and that s not even counting the batteries says lewis weber.

Nasa just announced that our sun began a new solar cycle this year its 25th to be exact after reaching a solar minimum in december 2019. It also means shipping manufacturing equipment up to the moon. The same lunar materials can also be converted into photovoltaic. Solar weather activity is now expected to increase.

Putting giant solar panels on the moon or mirrors into lunar orbit would go a long way towards solving the earth s energy problems and climate crisis according to the former astronaut dr helen sharman the first briton to go into space. Let s walk you through the details.