"Powering a Moon base through the lunar night" Topic

"What's the most practical way to sustain a permanent Moon base through the two-week lunar night? In March of 2014, the Sacramento L5 Society (SL5S), a California chapter of the National Space Society, undertook the task of answering that question, eventually resulting in a detailed analysis of 20 different potential energy delivery systems. This article is a summary of the findings of the SL5S analysis to date. The detailed analysis itself and its accompanying spreadsheet, including a full description of the 20 systems the SL5S has studied to date, can be found on the SL5S website.

In early 2014, two college students, Akhil Raj Kumar Kalapala and Krishna Bhavana Sivaraju of Rajiv Gandhi University in India, proposed beaming space-based solar energy to the Earth by way of a laser beam located in geosynchronous orbit. On March 14, 2014, an informal "brown bag" Moon Base Working Group (MBWG) started at NASA Ames Research Center in California "to develop a cost-effective plan for establishing and operating the NASA Moon Base that would be within 10% of the total NASA budget." In March of 2014, Joseph Bland of the SL5S, one of the mentors for Akhil and Krishna, suggested to Michael Abramson, a member of both the SL5S and of the NASA Ames MBWG, that the group examine the possibility of powering a Moon base through the lunar night with a laser either at L1 or in lunar orbit…"
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Omg, build a nuclear reactor and refuel every 10 years. What a dumb article.

A closed system pebble-bed reactor would be ideal. No fuss, no muss. The size of a tractor-trailer.