They want to build a so called luna ring.
Japanese solar panels on the moon.
A giant solar power station.
Electric power generated by a belt of solar cells around the lunar equator could be transmitted and beamed to the earth from the near side of the moon.
It also means shipping manufacturing equipment up to the moon.
As part of the 2 2 billion project the droids will begin construction of an unmanned base near the south pole of the moon that will be powered by solar panels according to the panel chaired by waseda university president katsuhiko shirai.
The shimizu corporation proposes.
A japanese firm announces its innovative solution to the nation s energy problems a 250 mile wide belt of solar panels on the moon.
Of course this idea involves building solar panels on the moon which means we would have people on the moon all the time about six months to a year per person criswell suggests to build and maintain the repair equipment and arrays.
A japanese firm has come up with the idea of constructing an array of solar cells around the moon s equator to harvest solar energy and beam it back to earth.
The disaster at the fukushima nuclear power station has made japan think more seriously about alternative energy and as a result shimizu corporation s crazy plan has been gaining traction.
One japanese company shimizu already has that covered.
Japanese firm plans 250 mile wide solar panel belt around moon.
While the wireless power transmission is possible over shorter ranges now a civil engineering firm in japan shimizu is planning to do it on a giant scale.
And yes it would look just the way it sounds a ring of solar panels spanning around the moon.
So much so that one japanese construction firm is campaigning to power the whole earth with solar energy that they will beam down from the moon.
Japan plans to turn the moon into one huge solar power plant ever since the disaster at fukushima nuclear power plant japan has been looking to alternatives to nuclear power for their energy needs.
They are aiming to apply this wireless power transmission between the earth and the moon.