Flywheel

Yesterday Reynolds and PopSci relayed Greater Earth Lunar Power Station (GE_⊕-LPS). I am unsure of the naming; the station is at TLL1.

TLL1 is competing with solar-power, which power isn't always on over the Moon. It competes further with thorium (being nearside), assuming we're all happy with some nation owning a nearside lunar base with U-233. If we're talking TLL2 that's a uranium opportunity. More seriously: batteries are gittin'-gud implying the loonies might not care if the sun isn't always up. Casey Handmer thought last year that nearside might even take power beamed from Earth.

The ending of the article is pretty lame, THE CASE FOR SPACE BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE. Funding-justification.

To shift materiel between the Moon and its TLL1 or L2 is a simple matter of energy: from the Moon a massdriver could do it, or a weak aluminium-oxygen rocket either way (once L1 and/or L2 get the Al+O). At least L1 has been considered harmful for direct massdriving since the 1970s. Instead, these madlads want that space elevator from Sinus Medii.