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Mon Feb  1 23:43:40 1982
Nuts --> Lunar solar-power station
From: Robert Elton Maas <REM at MIT-MC>
I think it's much easier to build large structures in space than
on the Moon, because you can just float out things via automated
beam-builders and not have to sorry about supporting the equipment
against gravity nor even about the hills and valleys you'd have to
traverse if you built it on the moon. Even if you build it ok, you
have to beam the energy back about ten times the distance (225,000
miles instead of only 25,000 miles) and somehow re-direct it to
a single place on Earth that will receive it. But it's a idea worth studying.
Maybe I'm wrong and it's a good idea. Experts should add up all
the costs and benefits and compare with the geosync and polarsync
proposals and settle the matter by means other than my speculation.

Has anybody seriously studied lunar-based SPS?