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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total (www.ecowatch.com)

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China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

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[–] Wogi 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There are craters towards the poles that receive sunlight all the time. But you'd still have to build extra panels for the lunar cycle. Equatorial stations might be better, and if you built 3, 2 would be in direct sunlight almost all the time.

Which is fine! Gives you time to do maintenance without any additional losses.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Not really…you don’t want to be out doing maintenance at lunar night. We’d have to have some serious improvement in EVA suits, mechsuits, or robots.

There’s a reason every Apollo mission landed at lunar dawn.

[–] Wogi 1 points 10 months ago

That's it. We'll need to invent sun lamps. Lamps bright and hot enough to illuminate and warm the Martian surface at night, to enable maintenance.