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more_corn on Jan 1, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Powering the lunar base, version 2

I think space based solar is probably the way to go. Starship will make launch so cheap it’ll be worth getting the panels into perpetual sunlight.

drpyser22 on Jan 2, 2023 [–]

According to the article author it requires costly infrastructure on the moon, compared to their proposal of beaming energy through microwave from Earth.

Nomentatus on Jan 5, 2023 | [–]

Space based solar would also use microwaves to beam the energy to the moon.

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