in edinburgh scotland a team is working on a solution to this problem at the harriet watt university yogo schleppy is researching the topic of solar energy. altamont of course on the moon we can't just plug our devices into sockets and we have to consider what kind of resources are available for producing energy there are no rivers there's no wind on the moon there's no atmosphere if you will what is available is sunlight and it's better than on earth because it is not weakened by the atmosphere but from. the other schleppy wants to produce mirrors to create energy his experiment is also about how to use lunar regolith. fortress off we'll have the materials we've brought with us and there's this basaltic sand. what we can build out of basaltic sand is relatively simple bricks or walls by heating the material or baking whatever we can go one step further and produced result a glass from a material. schleppy uses an ordinary microwave oven to make glass from the moon sand simulant. he grinds the molten regolith which is turned into glass as smoothly as possible so huge the glass brick