I really like this one. Dr. David Criswell has come up with a good reason to start up the space race again. If the Chinese claim the moon first, they might become the new power barons of the 21st century.
Dr. Criswell has a plan to plate the moon with solar cells and beam the collected energy to earth. According to him, it would take about fifteen billion dollars to get started, and another hundred and thirty five billion dollars to break even, but after that all those sunbeams would be money in the bank. Forget about oil and nuclear energy, the real future could be solar powered! http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/lunarpower020422.html http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0204/29moonpower/ The next link is a download of Criswell's original article in "The Industrial Physicist." But you need Adobe Acrobat to read it: http://www.aip.org/web2/aiphome/tip/INPHFA/vol-8/iss-2/p12.pdf What do y'all think? Is there potential here? Kevin Street
