Israeli Plan For Solar Energy On The Moon

An Israeli researcher has come up with a feasible strategy to produce solar energy on the Moon for future residents.He was invited to present the plan to NASA, which has been considering nuclear power instead.It involves installing photovoltaic (PV) panels around a 360 degree latitudinal ring close to a lunar pole. The solar energy would be transmitted to operating plants on the Moon that will produce oxygen needed for a future lunar colony.  Until now, it has been a challenge to determine how solar energy could be produced on the Moon for humans, partly because the Moon spends half of its rotation in the dark, away from the sun. This solution was developed by Prof Jeffrey Gordon of the Department of Solar Energy and Environmental Physics at Ben-Gurion University.He took into account the absence of a lunar atmosphere, the Moon’s near-zero tilt and smaller diameter than that of…

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