Powering the lunar base, version 2

Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2 by SoftTalker on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:19PM (#34201342)

This is one of those late-night-dorm-conversation topics that is fun but pretty much hypothetical. We will not have any bases on the moon for a long, long time. We can't even manage powering our society here on earth.

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Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2 by WalterBright on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:35PM (#34201457)

> We can't even manage powering our society here on earth.

Those are political problems, not engineering ones.

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Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2 by mansoon on Saturday December 31, 2022 @11:25PM (#34203594)

Ah yes, so they’re unsolvable, rather than merely difficult.

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Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2 by Dylan16807 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @05:42PM (#34201517)

> We can't even manage powering our society here on earth.

It's orders of magnitude less power so that doesn't matter.

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Re:Powering the lunar base, version 2 by more_corn on Saturday December 31, 2022 @10:46PM (#34203382)

We’ll have one within 20 years. NASA has plans (annd money) and spacex starship has an even more ambitious plan and schedule (and wants money). We’ll probably just tag along for the ride as starship is going by on the way to mars.

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