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 FlowersSeveral 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