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Japan wants to build an 11,000-kilometer solar ring around the Moon and beam clean energy back to Earth, an idea that sounds impossible until engineers explain the plan


Japan’s Luna Ring proposal could beam solar energy from the Moon to Earth using a massive orbital power network.

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