Lunar Solar Power System and Lunar Exploration

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Jan 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002mbns.conf...11c&link_type=abstract

The Moon Beyond 2002: Next Steps in Lunar Science and Exploration, p. 11

Physics

Lunar Exploration, Solar Energy Conversion, Power Plants, Microwave Transmission, Energy Storage, Prototypes, Lunar Based Equipment

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Five of the six billion people on Earth produce less than 2,500 per year per person of Gross World Product (GWP). GWP growth is severely limited by the high cost, low availability and reliability, environmental damages, and political uncertainties of conventional fossil, nuclear, and terrestrial renewable power systems. In 2000 the World Energy Council challenged all decision makers to enable the equivalent of 6.7 kWt per person of thermal power within two generations. This implies 67 TWt, or approx.20 to 30 TWe, of sustainable electric power by 2050. Twenty-five power systems were reviewed to select which could: (1) sustainably provide 20 TWe to consumers; (2) profitably sell electricity for less than 0.01 per kWe-h; (3) be environmentally neutral, even nurturing; and (4) use understood technologies. The analyses indicated that only the Lunar Solar Power (LSP) System could meet these requirements within the 21st Century.

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