Sun gives life

What if Moon sand could be used to create solar cells?

Fully automatic machine on sandy terrain intakes sand and creates solar cell“on the flow”. Then it connect every new element with previously created, building vast array of solar cells. All the energy is then stored in batteries located nearby.

The machine uses that energy for building new cells and cleaning, repairing old ones. It waits for batteries to charge and produces new cells as long as there is enough energy, and if all current cells are repaired and clean.

Once all the area provided for the machine is covered with solar cells, energy is forwarded to central network. The machine uses only small amount of energy to “keep cells clean”.

What if machine breaks down? What to do with redundant batteries arrays when all cells are built? And, by the way, how did that machine get there?

All these operation are performed by other machine of higher level - a “parent machine”! It distributes cell creating machines together with batteries containing initial charge and all other required materials. It also “comes to visit child” if it requires maintains or additional materials. After child finishes covering area with solar cells, parent comes to collect redundant batteries, and materials and connect child’s cells array to global power network.

Before developing or detailing this idea.. Is this possible? What is required to create the network?

First, there should be human spaceship, base or settlement where all the machines originate from (maybe produced right there - on the Moon using local resources). Second thing - advanced level of mechanics combined with advanced software (pseudo-A.I.). Then comes efficient and easily created solar cells, that could be produced using fully (or mostly) local Moon resources. Finally - capacitive, efficient batteries. Other things are just details.

Even more extreme fantasies

What if parent machines could search for resources, collect resources and produce child machines? And all of that could be done using only the energy produced by numerous arrays created by numerous child machines.

What if parent machines could rebuilt and upgrade them selves? The only required thing would be a software updates created by humans.

What if there would be fully automatic station producing parent machines, controlling them, providing software updates and new hardware configurations? It could be controlled by supercomputer with higher level A.I.

Maybe no human intervention would be required after some time? And than we would have a new life form!