Aduke.1752 net.space utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!cjp Mon Feb 8 11:01:44 1982 polar lunar solar power I can see problems with moon-based solar power stations even at the poles. If you could get continuous power there, I could maybe see beaming it to earth from such a close tangent to the lunar surface. The moon's orbit is the problem. It is not quite in the same plane as the earth's orbit around the sun. So, the polar regions will cycle in and out of sunlight on a yearly basis. Even when the sun lights the pole, it is low on the lunar horizon. This means that the collectors would have to be huge and/or highly tilted, relative to the amount of power you'd get. And you would still have to build a power station at both poles to get year-round power. ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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.