A Japanese Company wants to Build an 11,000 KM solar farm on the Moon-

originally posted by: Arbitrageur
a reply to: interupt42
I think it would be better to beam power back from orbiting satellites. For one thing I don't see how they can focus microwave radiation enough from the distance of the moon, and even with lasers the beams will be fairly large by the time the reach the Earth. The moon is further than most people think since most illustrations distort the distance to make it look like the moon is close.

Here's an actual photo of the Earth and moon and to me it shows the moon is not very close:

Japanese Probe Snaps Amazing Views of Earth and Moon

Japan's Hayabusa 2 asteroid probe captured this amazing view of the Earth and the moon together as seen from 1.8 million miles (3 million kilometers) away during an Earth flyby on Dec. 3, 2015.