China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total - EcoWatch
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China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

China Installed More Solar Panels Last Year Than the U.S. Has in Total::China installed more new solar capacity last year than the total amount ever installed in any other country.

  • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    10 months ago

    There are craters towards the poles that receive sunlight all the time. But you’d still have to build extra panels for the lunar cycle. Equatorial stations might be better, and if you built 3, 2 would be in direct sunlight almost all the time.

    Which is fine! Gives you time to do maintenance without any additional losses.

    • JasonDJEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      Not really…you don’t want to be out doing maintenance at lunar night. We’d have to have some serious improvement in EVA suits, mechsuits, or robots.

      There’s a reason every Apollo mission landed at lunar dawn.

      • Wogi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        10 months ago

        That’s it. We’ll need to invent sun lamps. Lamps bright and hot enough to illuminate and warm the Martian surface at night, to enable maintenance.