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Lighting Up The Lunar Night With Fuel Cells
SpaceListener
post Dec 13 2007, 09:58 PM
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The new technology to generate electricity by recycling the water between day and night looks very promising. I tought it would be good to share us. It is ideal for Moon South Polar where the night time is shorter than the day by an proportion of 1/3.

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The alternative generation of the electricity would be a solar panel on the crest of mountain where the lunar post would be located in a permanent dark place. Let see what technology would be winner: Solar panel or Fuel Cells.
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- SpaceListener   Lighting Up The Lunar Night With Fuel Cells   Dec 13 2007, 09:58 PM
- - Phil Stooke   Any sensible design would include both for complet...   Dec 14 2007, 01:16 AM
- - SpaceListener   I think that the solar panel is simpler and robust...   Dec 14 2007, 05:00 PM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Dec 14 2007, 05:00...   Dec 14 2007, 05:59 PM
|- - SpaceListener   QUOTE (djellison @ Dec 14 2007, 11:59 AM)...   Dec 14 2007, 07:36 PM
- - lyford   Maybe the solar panels were specially developed fo...   Dec 14 2007, 07:37 PM
- - Zvezdichko   I see nothing about nuclear power. Why?   Dec 14 2007, 10:21 PM
- - Del Palmer   QUOTE (SpaceListener @ Dec 13 2007, 09:58...   Dec 15 2007, 02:24 AM
|- - SpaceListener   QUOTE (Del Palmer @ Dec 14 2007, 08:24 PM...   Dec 15 2007, 03:39 PM
- - mchan   A fuel cell produces electricity as long as there ...   Dec 15 2007, 09:42 AM
|- - djellison   QUOTE (mchan @ Dec 15 2007, 09:42 AM) A f...   Dec 15 2007, 10:15 AM
- - mchan   D'oh. Lost the context.   Dec 15 2007, 10:29 AM
- - dvandorn   It's not a matter of redundancy. What is bein...   Dec 15 2007, 06:21 PM

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