Japan plans to deploy the factory of solar panels on the moon

Tokyo-based Shimizu Corporation plans to use the moon as a place for the production of electricity that will be generated from solar energy. For this purpose the experts from Japan plan to 2035 to install a belt of solar panels 400 km around the equator of our satellite. This giant road of solar panels with a length of 11 000 km under the name "lunar Ring" would then relay a constant stream of energy to receiving stations of the Earth. According to calculations by the company Shimizu, this project will provide our Planet with additional energy to 13,000 terawatts.



 

The company has not voiced the price of such a project, but we assume that it will be astronomical. However, the company says that construction work could begin in 2035.





Shimizu claims that can create robots that will mine natural resources in the mines of the moon, to produce concrete and the solar cells. If you can complete the sun belt, then eventually it can provide the Earth with a constant stream of solar energy, as the moon rotates around our planet.





Initially, the project was proposed in 2010, but it received new interest after the disaster of Fukushima nuclear power plant. Last year, Fukushima was the subject of constant studies that raised questions about the feasibility of operation of nuclear plants in Japan. Then the Japanese actively began to research more environmentally friendly and safe energy sources.