date-created: '2007-12-06'
date-updated: '2026-01-09'
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title: 'Lunar solar power generation'
description: 'Solar power could be collected on the moon. Many different beams of 12cm wavelength microwaves would deliver power to receivers at sites located worldwide. Each receiver would supply commercial power to a given region. Such a receiver, called a rectenna, would consist of a large field of small rectifying antennas. A beam with a maximum intensity of less than 20% of noontime sunlight would deliver about 200 W to its local electric grid for every square meter of rectenna area.'
keywords: 'Solar, moon, solar power, microwaves, rectenna, satellites, lunar solar power, LSP, earth, transmit, power generation, electric grid, direct current'
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