Agreed. I understand Japan's concern for finding an alternate energy source after that nuclear reactor meltdown, but this just sounds too risky. Not to mention the cost of such a project would be insanely astronomical.
Would it though? Using todays technology, the most expensive process would be fuel to get everything there. Imagine that by the time this project takes off, we have fully functioning space elevators to get everything out of the atmosphere more efficiently (takes much less fuel to actually get to moon...escaping Earth takes a lot of energy). Cost gets massively cut by this. Not too much in the realm of science fiction either. Price could be moot to the CEOs as well because a project like this if completed can pay for itself quickly!
They always are coming up with innovative shyt.
how would this affect our tides, tilt n shyt.... ?
Also, we have a ton of space on Earth... Why not do it here and be more cost affective.. and also minimize the risk?
This wouldnt effect tides and tilt at all. They are just putting solar panels on the moon. Insignificant on a planetary scale. But, to you point about why not just do it on Earth? I'd imagine the coordination needed to assemble governments to allow building and infrastructure would be too much. Then environmental issues, developing on protected areas, the miles and miles of cables needed to route the energy. In a more practical sense, the moon has no atmosphere as well, meaning way more radiation will reach the panels resulting in more energy. On the moon, its free real estate basically, and you can just transmit the energy back like we do with radio waves. Just my ramblings though. Earth certainly does have the space to do it.
They better make sure it doesnt fukk up the tides. Japan itself would get that massive tsunami. Im sure it wouldnt but who knows.
Anyway, shyt seems outlandish as fukk. Its gonna start in 22 years? By robotic construction workers?
Ya this would not effect tidal motions. The moon is 1/3 the size of Earth. For it to have an affect on tides, the mass of the moon would have to increase significantly. No human construction project would be close to doing this. And robots do construction on a small scale now. I wouldnt laugh at the possibility of them using robots at all.
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which begs the question to the governments of the world
Politics and interests. Traditional energies are too ingrained into the fabric of the modern world to let things like this go down without a fight. Solar technology is quickly becoming more affordable. Its really fascinating stuff when you look at how these panels work. The materials to capture the photons is what held back marketability of these for so long. I think government is subsidizing the costs for many places now. When newer more efficient tech to capture photons appears, solar will be the definitive way to go.
