SPS and Power Lines from the Moon

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003 21:22:12 GMT, "TangoMan"
wrote:

Submitted for your amusement.

My voice alone was insufficient to get them to change the FAQ.

This is from a leading renewable energy advocacy group's FAQ

Try and picture what this would look like

http://solstice.crest.org/solar/sola...solaronthemoon

Selected Quotes:

Why don't we build a solar plant on the
moon and beam the energy back to Earth?

. . In addition, with the rotation of
the moon and the earth as they are, the
transmission cables would quickly become
terribly tangled.

. . . Furthermore since most industrialized
countries experience power losses of about
10% between the generating plant and the
customer, which is only at most in the
hundreds of kilometers, there is no way the
energy would be still coursing through the
transmission cables after the 384,400
kilometers it would have to travel from the
moon to the earth.


Not to mention the noise the takeup reel would make as cable was paid out
and reeled in due to the constantly changing Earth-Moon distance. ;-)

Was this FAQ posted in April?

Chris W.