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Except that for half of the lunar calendar the DARK side of the moon is facing the earth.

They are talking about the FAR side of the moon, not the DARK side. It was first photographed by a Russian probe in 1959.

Far side of the Moon

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea, let’s just build solar collectors around the entire moon and connect the all to the transmitter that it is always facing the earth. That should only cost $13,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 or so and take about 1000 years.