Generating Electricity from Moonlight

Here’s an article that claims, “En términos simples, así es como funciona: la esfera se llena de agua que magnifica los rayos del sol en más de 10.000 veces, por lo que es posible generar energía de la luna,” which I translate as, “In simple terms, it functions like this: the sphere is full of water which magnifies the rays of the sun more than 10 thousand times, making it possible to generate energy from the moon.”

Here are the problems you’re going to run into:

It’s possible that this lens concentrates the incident light, but it doesn’t magnify/amplify it.

The incident power from a full moon is 0.00146 Watts per square meter, or one six-millionth what we get from the sun at the equator.  The average home rooftop solar installation is 26 square meters; for moonlight, it would be 4,166,666 square meters, which is 1.6 square miles.  That’s a big rooftop.