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I think solar will be fine for early lunar tourism since tourism could simply be constrained to the lunar day cycle with only a small storage for certain systems that may need to be powered continuously.
I think your math is wrong. Isn’t is 127,000 mWh?
100 kw * 3600 (seconds per hour) * 14.7 (days per lunar night) * 24 (hours per day) / 1000 (convert kWh to mWh)
Interesting video
Why not just store the energy in a much cheaper, albeit less efficient, way?
is there a reasonable way to cool the rectors? radiators don't seem like enough?
Solar panels still have a purpose for running electrolysis and other intensive isru processes. The majority of isru requires a lot of power, so the day will be used for processing. I can imagine the day cycle being used for heavy isru and mining, while the night will be used for maintenance, construction, and other tasks for running the colony. Also you can actually use the moon itself for cooling reactors. Just 10 centimeters down the soil temp drops from 60 to -10 degrees celsius, and so going even deeper than that will lead to lunar night regolith conditions due to very low thermal conductivity.
No idea why YouTube recommended you on my front page, other than it knew I like good content.
Very digestible and interesting. Glad I got to find your channel. I hope others find it as well.
What about lunar poles? as i heard constant sunlight available there
In the 2312 book they have a rolling city that just loops mercury perpetually chasing the sunrise. The moons made of metal oxide, if you can process that into metal beams then all your solar panels can just continually roll around the moon chasing the day.
Would it be possible to use lasers to beam energy from the Earth during new moon? Or from a satellite in a suitable Moon Earth Lagrange point.
F lithium ion, nickel hydrogen is the way