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Why don't we get some orbiting mirrors, made out of reflective fabric that is super thin and super light and point them to converge at some water on the moon that boils and turns a generator to make electrical power. If you don't want to use a regular old fission reactor that is. That would be lots easier than fields and fields of inefficient, more-$/mass-than-gold-solar cells. But all this may be moot shortly after its actually built if fusion is that close.

If you used orbiting mirrors or fusion, you could basically get all the energy you could ever imagine needing. Electolyze your frozen water, make O2 for breathing, H2 and O2 for rocket fuel.

Heck, you could eventually make some REALLY big mirrors that you could use to heat up the whole moon if you wanted, or light up the dark side. That would be awesome.

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uh, you can do all that on earth!

Even cheaper is plain old nuclear power.