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Scientists say they've figured out how to turn moon soil into spaceship fuel and oxygen. QUOTE - We propose a potentially available extraterrestrial photosynthesis pathway on the moon, which will help us to achieve a “zero-energy consumption” extraterrestrial life support system. Chinese method uses the soil as a catalyst using solar energy to convert brought (by spacecraft) water and CO2 into usable elements and compounds. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a … 5122001787 Article is below.
http://www.psysecrets.info/2022/05/scie … t-how.html
By evaluating the performance of the Chang’E-5 lunar sample as photovoltaic-driven electrocatalyst, photocatalyst, and photothermal catalyst, full water splitting and CO2 conversion are able to be achieved by solar energy, water, and lunar soil, with a range of target product for lunar life, including O2, H2, CH4, and CH3OH.
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Thicknesses of Mare Basalts in the Chang’E-5 Landing Region: Implications for the Late-Stage Volcanism on the Moon
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Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it
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China says it plans the first part of its International Lunar Research Station to be in place in 2028 & that several Asia-Pacific nations have agreed to participate in it.
https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Chin … s_999.html
The Chinese Chang’e 5 mission has returned a new mineral from the lunar surface. Chinese scientists call the mineral “Changesite-(Y).” The mineral has been described by the state-operated news agency Xinhau as a “kind-of colorless transparent columnar crystal.” Also, the Chinese claim that the new mineral contains helium-3, an isotope that many scientists have touted as a potential fuel for future fusion reactors.
https://thehill.com/opinion/technology/ … echnology/
Lunar mining: 'We have to walk before we can run'
https://www.sudbury.com/local-news/luna … un-6869263
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'The law is way behind the time': Mining asteroids and the moon remains a huge legal gray area
https://www.livescience.com/space/aster … -gray-area
also without legal political debates
Difficult Environment
http://web.archive.org/web/201311060551 … pter03.pdf
Lunar surface temperatures increase about 280 K from just before lunar dawn to lunar noon. Heat flow
measurements within the upper several meters of the lunar regolith were made at the Apollo 15 and 17 sites (Langseth et al.., 1973), where surface temperatures were also monitored by thermocouples in cables placed several centimeters above the lunar surface. At the Apollo 15 site (26°N, 3.6°E), the maximum temperature was 374 K (101°C) with a minimum of 92 K (-181°C). Temperatures at the Apollo 17 site (20°N, 30.6º E) were about 10° higher (Langseth and Keihm, 1977). These observed temperatures are quite close to those determined by Earth-based instruments (maximum = 390 K, minimum = 104 K; Glasstone, 1965).
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