In Japan, engineers are imagining a concept building a huge ring of solar panels around the Moon which aims to send electricity Earth using energy beams. Known as the "Lunar Solar Ring", the concept by Shimizu Corporation is still at a proposal stage and has no public funding. The proposal envisions a massive belt of solar panels built around the Moon’s equator to capture solar energy continuously and transmit it back to Earth. Though the idea sounds like science fiction, researchers behind the project studied the concept elaborately as a long-term solution to the world's growing energy and environmental challenges amid concerns over climate change and rising electricity demand.
