Solar belt around the moon planned by Japanese engineers

[NickB79]

66. People really love their sci-fi, don't they?

We can't even get more than a few percent of our energy needs ON THIS PLANET from solar panels and wind turbines, where they are far, far easier to install, maintain and hardwire into the local power grids, yet people think we're going to build a planetary microwave power grid within our lifetimes by orbiting moon-built solar panels?

We can't even get a man back to the moon with the current equipment we have (seriously, we no longer have the heavy-lift rockets to do so, and we're not gonna just pull out the blueprints for the old Saturn V rockets again), yet we're going to remotely build a fully autonomous, robotic lunar factory to mine, smelt and assemble MILLIONS of square miles of solar panels?

We might as well have a serious discussion about easing the food crisis on Earth by terraforming Mars, turning the planet into farm fields, and shipping the crops back to us. It's theoretically possible, but patently ridiculous with current technology. One day we could get there, but that day is many, many decades off, if not 22nd century and beyond.

The hubris of our species truly is astounding at times.