From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Flowers@YALE@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: 
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3396
Posted: Tue Sep 21 12:28:52 1982
Received: Wed Sep 22 03:54:45 1982

From: Margot Flowers 
Several people have pointed out that the poles of the moon do not
receive sunlight continually.  (I knew there was a reason I said
"If ...".)

Though my suggestion was faulty, the point of my comment was really
more general:  that appropriate spacings of solar collectors on the
moon might make solar power be not so unfeasible asit might seem
at first thought -- something that various other messages have
recently suggested too.

     Date: 20 September 1982 19:42-EDT
     From: Robert Elton Maas 
     Your geometrical terminology is lacking. The distance around the moon
     is called the "circumference", not the "diameter".

I did know that (I think it is clear from the content of my message
that I meant "one quarter of the circumference", otherwise more people
would have commented on it), but thanks for pointing out my
inadvertent "write-o".

          - Margot Flowers