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While I appreciate the humor, the crowd here doesn't typically take to it. To answer your question - I do not have much knowledge of available solar energy on the moon versus the Earth, but I think it's safe to assume it would be much less impeded on the moon than on Earth, which has an atmosphere, magnetosphere, and ozone layer at the very least getting in the way of solar rays.



It looks like about 1/3 more energy per area than the surface of Earth at noon. On the moon you should get about a 50% duty cycle of that as opposed to about 20% on Earth (the edges of the day and weather eat a lot of power), so it's safe to say "about three times as much" energy per year.




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