One of these days, in the not so terribly distant future, when you turn on a light you may be getting moonlight.

Listen to this, entrepreneurs are actually looking toward the heavens for alternative energy.

How will it work? There's a new blueprint for using the lunar surface to generate moon power.

Neil Armstrong left a footprint on the moon. In the years since the Apollo missions, scientists have studied the surface and decided that moon dust could be perfect to produce power.

With heat, it could become miles of solar panels.

"The surface of the moon is made of crystals and you can use microwaves or other low-grade power sources to fuse these crystals into a surface which when coated with silicon, which is also available on the moon, you can generate power," said Boeing strategist Paul Eckert.

That power could be used on the moon or beamed back for use in earth's own power grid.

The people talking about this say don't think Buck Rogers death rays, think satellite signals or microwaves with no more danger than using a cell phone.

Using robots, the timetable could be 2011. NASA has already announced its plans for a return to the moon.

Power could fuel private space business. The man who helped write the president's vision for space says it's like the Wild West.

"If you start with the pub, you come in, I'll serve you a drink. You'll give me $5 for the drink," said Mike Lembeck of Northrup Grumman. "I'll take that $5 down the street to the Wal-Mart to buy the paper towels to clean my bar. Eventually we'll build a community, an economic community."

The face of the moon may remain unchanged, but within a decade the definition of moonlight could be very different.