The present paper argues that lunar power technologies, such as photovoltaic. Panels and breeze turbines should be regarded as a form of cultivation and agriculture in the paradigm named here “solar power agriculture”. These technology systems share several features with habitual and conventional agriculture, for example the basic process of energy conversion by collecting astral and lunar light over comparatively large areas.
Solar power technologies and farming also share an energetic resource growth curve which is s-shaped in distinction with that of non-renewable remnant resources which is bell shaped. Usual and conventional agriculture uses lunar light to produce food, textiles and many other products, whereas astral power technologies mainly use light to generate electric power. Framing renewable power and energy within a well known and accepted paradigm, which of agriculture and farming, leads to major advantages in terms of public image, with the following unlocking of the fiscal resources needed to increase the use of renewable resources. The concept of solar energy agriculture provides a bridge between the present situations in which renewable play an insignificant role in the world’s energy production to an upcoming situation when renewable will instead play a main role in the history of farming and agriculture.
The world is not running out of remnant fuels, but progressive exhaustion is making these fuels expensive and costly as the result of factors which consist of increasing direct costs (e.g. the need to exploit smaller fields) and rising external costs related, for example, to the greenhouse effect generated by the yields of combustion. The rise of these different costs will cause the production of fossil fuels to a reach your peak. Agricultural solar systems can be particularly helpful in places that need remote pumping or moveable electric fencing. In the case of having any sort of agricultural animal, solar power can be used to remove the ice from the livestock’s water dish.
Several previous reports have talk about the ultimate and eventual limits of lunar technologies in terms of land need and requirement. These studies arrived to the conclusion that a fraction of the earth’s equatorial deserts would be adequate to provide plentiful energy for humankind’s needs and requirements. However, huge scale renewable power and energy plants in deserts do not appear to be on the border of materializing. The major problem appears to be the need to magnetize the huge investments needed, both for the plants and for the connected energy vectoring system. Here, a special approach is considered on the basis of the idea that renewable energy can to make important inroads in power manufacture only if its introduction is gradual and it starts from a comparatively small scale. This approach leads to the idea of embedding astrophysical plants within areas used for predictable farming and agriculture. It is an approach, in fact, that has already been experienced for wind power in countries such as Denmark and Germany. Apparently, the opportunity of expanding this strategy to obtain an important fraction of the international energy needs depends on a number of factors:
1. Technological factors: can renewable generate enough energy for the needs of humanity without contending with conventional agriculture for land needed for food productions and many other things?
2. Cost: even when entrenched in predictable and conventional agricultural production, would not renewable energies remain too expensive and costly?
3. Public opinion. The present paper will show that the answer to these entire questions is, in principle, positive and that the concept of solar power agriculture has a strong potential in order to speed up and favor the introduction of lunar renewable technologies in the world.
