An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
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An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
A recent poll question asked if going back to the moon would be a great achievment. I said no if it was just another space race to beat the Chinese.
Going back to the moon to do something - that's totally different.
Found this article in www.space.com If NASA could travel reliably to the moon and learn to "live off the (lunar) land", massive solar farms that always face the sun could be built. Power could be microwaved to geostationary satellites, then beamed to where needed on the surface. Potentially, this could entirely replace fossil fuel.
Think of the future hot-roddrer: "I have an EV with a kick-butt 2-meter power antenna."
Going back to the moon to do something - that's totally different.
Found this article in www.space.com If NASA could travel reliably to the moon and learn to "live off the (lunar) land", massive solar farms that always face the sun could be built. Power could be microwaved to geostationary satellites, then beamed to where needed on the surface. Potentially, this could entirely replace fossil fuel.
Think of the future hot-roddrer: "I have an EV with a kick-butt 2-meter power antenna."
Last edited by Delta Flyer; 10-04-2005 at 01:44 PM.
#2
Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
A recent poll question asked if going back to the moon would be a great achievment. I said no if it was just another space race to beat the Chinese.
Going back to the moon to do something - that's totally different.
Found this article in www.space.com If NASA could travel reliably to the moon and learn to "live off the (lunar) land", massive solar farms that always face the sun could be built. Power could be microwaved to geostationary satellites, then beamed to where needed on the surface. Potentially, this could entirely replace fossil fuel.
Think of the future hot-roddrer: "I have an EV with a kick-butt 2-meter power antenna.
Going back to the moon to do something - that's totally different.
Found this article in www.space.com If NASA could travel reliably to the moon and learn to "live off the (lunar) land", massive solar farms that always face the sun could be built. Power could be microwaved to geostationary satellites, then beamed to where needed on the surface. Potentially, this could entirely replace fossil fuel.
Think of the future hot-roddrer: "I have an EV with a kick-butt 2-meter power antenna.
#3
Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Considering NASA's difficulty just going into low-earth orbit, gettting back to the moon reliably would be a challenge.
Another slant: If the US had the ablity to beam mega-watts of power from the moon to power a large city, it could probably be used to fry a city - think of the uproar.
Another slant: If the US had the ablity to beam mega-watts of power from the moon to power a large city, it could probably be used to fry a city - think of the uproar.
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Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Collecting solar power on the moon and beaming it by microwave back to Earth is about as efficient as buying a cray supercomputer in order to generate enough heat from it's electronics to use as a water heater in your home. There's absolutely, positively no reason to spend MY money (which is what they mean when they say tax dollars) putting anything at all on the moon.
As far as power generation goes, the most powerful electric generation station in the world is the Three Gorges Dam, slated to be fully operational and producing 18Gw of electricity by 2009. If we can do all that just with water coming down a river, I'm quite sure there's no reason to go to the moon for any reason.
As far as power generation goes, the most powerful electric generation station in the world is the Three Gorges Dam, slated to be fully operational and producing 18Gw of electricity by 2009. If we can do all that just with water coming down a river, I'm quite sure there's no reason to go to the moon for any reason.
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Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Consider I learned of this idea on Art Bell's Coast to Coast - where there is nightly discussion of UFO's, the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and other BS.
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Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Originally Posted by Delta Flyer
Consider I learned of this idea on Art Bell's Coast to Coast - where there is nightly discussion of UFO's, the paranormal, conspiracy theories, and other BS.
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Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Originally Posted by DeltaFlyer
Think of the future hot-roddrer: "I have an EV with a kick-butt 2-meter power antenna."
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Re: An Excellent Reason to Go Back to the Moon
Yeah, putting solar panels on the moon would be a great thing... for creating a real-live Star Wars scene. Imagine the city of Los Angelos, powered 80% by lunar solar, and the Chinese decide to send a nuclear missile to the moon and vaporize the solar collectors. The riots in the Inner Cities would make Rodney King look like a schoolyard scuffle.
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"Star Wars"
I'm not so sure anyone could easily nuke a lunar solar farm - the power beam would probably be directed at the missle in the event of an attack. That would be a political hot potato as China and others would claim a lunar solar farm was really a military weapon....