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by itishappy 721 days ago
Battery tech is awesome, but I think you're overselling it a bit. We've barely started figuring out grid-scale battery storage on Earth. There's 2 big reasons the Moon is going to be much much harder:

1. Batteries are heavy, and space ain't cheap. Current launch pricing is about $1.5k/kg to LEO. The Moon will be more, it's further away. Even if Starship brings that down by a factor of 10, transportations costs are still going to be astronomical.

2. The day-night cycle on the Moon is slow. Your batteries are going to need to be able to store half a month worth of power. You'll need 15x more batteries on the Moon than you would on Earth.