A Japanese Company Wants to Build an 11,000-Mile Solar Power Center On the Moon

POLICY MIC By Matt Essert. Feb. 26, 2014. The news: Though it's been taking a little while to catch on, solar power is certainly nothing new. You've probably seen those huge panels somewhere near you. But what would it be like to see a strip of solar panels on our moon? The Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architectural, engineering and general contracting firm, has unveiled proposed plans to build a gigantic solar strip across the 11,000-mile Lunar equator in order to harness the power of the sun as a sustainable source of renewable energy. The 11,000 mile-long solar belt, or LUNA RING, would capture the sun's energy on the far side of the moon, then transfer it through a series of buried cables to the near side of the moon where it would be transported to Earth through microwaves and laser light. The energy would be collected by various semiconductor and inverters stations around the Earth to convert into DC power to provide clean energy to the world.
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