From: utzoo!decvax!cca!Flowers@YALE@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.space
Title: 
Article-I.D.: sri-unix.3354
Posted: Sun Sep 19 13:25:36 1982
Received: Tue Sep 21 03:56:57 1982

From: Margot Flowers 
     From: Jim McGrath 
     The sun sets even on the moon - for 2 weeks at a time - and solar
     energy is not constantly available except in very limited places.
     Thus you are forced into having long transmission lines (on the order
     of the moon's diameter), sharply restricting your building sites, ...

If solar energy sufficient for the needs of the dark half could be
generated at the poles (which would always recieve sunlight that
is not greatly diminshed by atmosphere as it is on the earth), then
the farthest transmission lines would have to reach would be to the
moon's equator, at most "only" one quarter the diameter of the moon
(still a somewhat long distance).