Well,  they don’t want to put solar panels ALL OVER the moon, they just want to to put a cheeky little 400 kilometer-wide belt of solar panels around the moon. Casual.

The Tokyo-based Shimizu Corporation fully intends to completely encircle the equator of the moon with these panels, and then beam down the near-constant supple of energy to “receiving stations” back here on earth.

It would be called the ‘Luna Ring’, and were it to be installed successfully, it would be capable of sending 13,000 terawatts of power back home. That is a helluva lot. Compare it to the 4,100 terawatts of power that the whole world produced collectively in 2011, and this Luna Ring thing starts to sound pretty attractive.

A shift from economical use of limited resources to the unlimited use of clean energy is the ultimate dream of mankind. The Luna Ring translates this dream into reality through ingenious ideas coupled with advanced space technologies.

A proposal says on Shimizu’s website.

Before the whole Fukushima disaster, most of Japan was running off nuclear power. But that incident massively shifted public opinion, which is now leaning towards more reliable, renewable energy.

[Source : Telegraph]