Solar Power from the Moon?

The Director of the Institute for Space Systems Operations at the University of Houston thinks so. It sounds great on paper, but I'm somehow skeptical (make your own joke here). I think obviously we need a bunch of other scientists to jump in and say whether it'll work or not, then we need to factor costs, then we need to deal with the international agreements regarding the moon, and then we'd need to divvy up power harvesting rights and whatnot. Then we'd need to build the things (will we need to make another moon rocket? can a space shuttle even land on the moon?).


But if it can work, it might be a worthwhile project for the U.S. Government, the United Nations, and the world.