Solar belt around the moon planned by Japanese engineers

[wercal]

18. Being realistic isn't being a defeatist

I happen be an engineer my own little self. Tomorrow I've got to go in to work and finish some cost estimates....you see I've got a pretty good grasp of what it costs to cover the ground with asphalt....and anyone who does knows how flat out dumb and impossible it would be to cover one half of this nation with anything, especially something as expensive as solar panels. It could never be done on earth. Of course it can't be done on the moon.

And quite frankly the moon, not having an atmosphere, gets more than its fair share of asteroid hits....which might not be too great for 1.8 million square miles of solar panels.

But ignoring all that, I don't think these genius scientiste have run the numbers on how much energy it would take to make 1.8 million square miles of solar panels....and LAUNCH them into space! How many decades would they have to be there to offset that energy use.

And don't even get me started on the colony that would have to be established to house the people who would build this thing.

Its stupid. And it will never happen.