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How to Harvest Terawatts of Solar Power on the Moon

The Crux
By David Warmflash
Apr 22, 2016 6:03 PMMay 21, 2019 5:45 PM
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Planet Earth isn’t the most ideal place for solar power to thrive. Sunsets and weather afford solar panels a significant amount of downtime.

But there’s a place not too far from here where the sun never stops shining.

A handful of researchers, and more recently the Japanese corporation Shimizu, have been gearing up to develop solar power on the moon.

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