originally posted in:Secular Sevens
Sure it's a great way to get a lot of energy, but there's 1 core flaw in this idea: You'll have to make many trips to the moon in order to gather together the extracted energy to send back to Earth, which is unnecessary.
Just throw a bunch of solar panels into deserts around the world.
English
-
Are you serious? You genuinely think they'd fly shuttles up to collect giant batteries, as opposed to beaming the energy back wirelessly? The 19th century called, they're laughing at you.
-
newsflash: tesla's coils aren't that effective for a modern age.
-
Yes, I was definitely suggesting we should use 19th-century technology, as opposed to pointing out the concept of wireless power transmission has been around for a long time and he really should've realized they weren't going to be flying batteries to the Moon and back.
-
So much of that power would be lost and maintaining those things would be a botched until we have a cost effective way of getting off this rock.
-
Why do people with no knowledge of a subject whatsoever insist on shoving their unfounded opinion everywhere?
-
The page won't load on my phone. Being able to send energy wirelessly has been around for decades and the problem to this very day has been %loss*distance. The longer the bridge, the more you lose, that's true even in high quality wires.
-
But we would have to protect and maintain the panels in the desert...
-
There's deserts in North America...so if we place some there, there's no need to really protect them as much.
-
Yes, but we still have to protect them from weathering....
-
Would still be less expensive than the whole Moon idea.
-
That my friend is true....