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Originally Posted by yubba

and to think of all the trouble , red tape, demonstrations,and well you get the picture to put up a couple of windmills here on earth ,thought we had sand here, what we also have the wrong kind of water here too.

No we have the wrong kind of sunlight. Our atmosphere blocks 30% of the sunlight we receive from reaching the Earth's surface. The atmosphere absorbs about 20% give or take. In other words a little over half the sunlight heading in our direction reaches the Earth's surface.

So a solar panel put just a mile strait up (in to space) generates 50% greater power. Ever see a house with a solar panel have its meter spin backwards?

Why build them on the Moon? Because the ingredients are there already and its easier to put them in Earth orbit from there! Just have to send a factory. Whats is even better than a factory? A robot factory that just builds them and sets them up all day long until the moon is covered with them.

Oh and solar panels last for about 40 years and are cheap to maintain.