Lunar Solar Panels

However one japanese construction company put forward a plan to make a solar belt to go around the moon.

Lunar solar panels.

Also provides some perspective on the cost savings achieved by using extraterrestrial materials in the construction of the satellite. Nasa was researching building solar panel satellites on earth and stationing them in orbit to provide clean energy and was about to abandon this project because of the high cost until they discovered they had a free satellite with most of the production material for solar panels available on this satellite called the moon. The advantage of this would be that the moon is constantly in the sun s light except during a lunar eclipse so power could be harnessed 24 7. Electric power generated by a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator could be transmitted and beamed to the earth from the near side of the moon.

The same lunar materials can also be converted into photovoltaic. Silicon dioxide comprising a large component of the lunar rocks and dust can be turned into glass for such a solar thermal system. The technology has been developed in the 80 s of last century will provide us with an abundance of cheap clean energy. So already it would still be solar power being used just reflected off of the moon first.