Japan’s Bold Lunar Ring Plan Would Turn the Moon into a 24/7 Power Station

One of the “Big Five” general contracting and engineering firms in Japan has revived one of the most audacious energy ideas ever sketched: wrapping the Moon’s equator in a giant belt of solar panels and beaming the power back to Earth via lasers and microwaves. So instead of building solar farms on Earth, why not build where the sunlight never

