Techno - phantasy

Japan wants to turn the moon into a giant power plant

News on Japan,

28 November, 2013

Shimizu Corporation, a Japanese architecture and engineering firm, has a plan to effectively turn the moon into a giant solar power plant, reports Inhabitat.

It proposes building a massive collection of solar panels (a "Luna Ring") 6,800 miles long by 12 miles wide on the moon's surface.

That's certainly a heavy-duty construction job for human beings, so Shimizu plans to get the work done with robots, only involving humans in supervisory roles.

Once complete, this hypothetical plant could continuously send energy to "receiving stations" around the globe by way of lasers and microwave transmission.

This idea gets around two major hurdles for solar power, as there is no weather or darkness to curb electricity production on the moon.

Russian Government Plans to Build 21 New Nuclear Reactors by 2030

Oil Price,

26 November, 2013

The Russian government, via its official online portal for legal information, has just recently unveiled plans to build 21 new nuclear power reactors across nine power stations by the year 2030. The plans include the construction of five new nuclear power stations housing two reactors each; three new power plants at locations where other nuclear facilities already exist, and the addition of another reactor at an existing nuclear power plant.

NucNet gives a detailed explanation of the five new nuclear power plants planned to be built in the next couple of decades.