This is pretty incredible if they can pull it off. Turning the moon into a giant solar panel? Some say it is doable, others say it would be too expensive and, therefore, unreasonable. Some experts say that the amount of money big oil companies spend every year to exhaust earth of its most valuable resource can be spent on put solar panels on the moon. These solar panels would provide an unlimited power supply sent back to earth in microwaves. What do you think?





It sounds like a tale from a science fiction novel, but a team of Japanese engineers really is hoping to turn the moon into a giant solar panel.

Shimizu, a giant civil engineering and construction firm, plans to install a ‘solar belt’ around the moon’s equator.

To be built almost entirely by remote-controlled robots, the Luna Ring would run around the 6,800 mile lunar equator and be 248 miles in width.

The solar energy collected would converted and beamed back to earth as microwaves and laser, where it would then be converted into electricity and then potentially supplied to the national grid.

Shimizu says the Luna Ring could generate a massive 13,000 terra watts of energy. The Sizewell B nuclear reactor in Suffolk produces 1,198 megawatts (MW).

According to the firm’s engineers, the moon’s equator is exposed to a steady amount of sun and not subject to some of the weather problems associated with solar energy generation on earth.

The company plans to have a pilot demonstration by 2020 and for construction to begin by 2035.

This is not the first time solar energy generated in space has been mooted as an answer to the earth’s dwindling energy resources. NASA has been investigating space-based solar systems for decades.

And not everyone is convinced – Prof Werner Hofer, director of the Stephenson Institute for Renewable Energy at the University of Liverpool, said: “Doing this in space is not a good idea because it is fantastically expensive and you probably never recover the energy you have to invest.”





This energy will help with many issues — environmental issues, global warming, rid ourselves of dependence on foreign oil, reduce the need for nuclear power plants, fuel more efficient and environmentally safe electronics including cars, subways, trains, buses, and airplanes; help developing third world countries, and making the world an overall more efficient place for all.

We can also use this unlimited supply of energy to do other things like fuel future voyages into deep space. Help get the word out about this amazing opportunity before someone else takes advantage of this amazing opportunity.

This video discusses using the tides caused by the moon as a source of unlimited energy.



Forget solar power, this month check out the only kind of energy sourced from the moon. Tidal power plants have an interesting history, but is there a future for this alternative source of renewable energy? Super durable concrete and floating construction methods have made unusual hydroelectricity plants economically feasible, but a new turbine is poised to carry them into the 21st century. Wave energy converters also capture the motion of the ocean and could boost electricity production at future tidal barrages threefold. And engineers are hard at work just outside of Moscow on a new pumped storage plant that harnesses the natural power of gravity for an environmentally friendly way to balance energy demand.