The moon? If we're going to build solar collectors in space to power stuff on Earth, why would we want to put them a quarter of a million miles away instead of in low Earth orbit? I don't get it.

Actually, a better place to park these collector would be in the stable orbit 'round L4 and L5. A secondary re-transmission array can be set up in orbit around Earth itself. That way, the primary colllection array is always facing the Sun.

Just FYI, I would never ask someone to watch a movie with a convicted pepophile acting in it (ie Jeffrey Jones).

Oh, charming. Let's spend hundreds of billions of dollars designing and building something that can be out-performed by a single nuclear reactor.

Yes, that sounds great. I'd just love to pay $50 a day for power.

Brilliant.

Nope, there's something up there more valuable, but I can't remember what it's called. Read about it a couple of years ago.

The theory was a shuttlebay full of this stuff could run America for a year.

It has a 3 in the name. And the Japanese or Chicoms are working on something w/ a 4 in the name.

Sandy, it's Helium-3, an isotope of helium with only one neutron. Fusion reactions utilizing Helium-3 produce more usable energy than Deuterium-Tritium fusion schemes that are currently approaching commercial viability.

Helium-3 is thought to be abundant on the Moon because it is bathed in such particles from the solar wind.

The hearing is about building solar arrays, not some magic moon dust.

The Criswell from Ed Wood died in 1982. But then Plan 9 may have brought him back from the grave so you never know.

The beam (electromagnetic) would spread during the trip from the moon to earth, so you couldn't put it in a populated area. People would be fried by the overlap.
If it were in near space I'd guess it would be an order of magnitude cheaper to set up and there would be much less spreading.

Nuclear power plants would be a good way to go - but the anti-nuc groups currently make it impossible to build new plants.