Propellant Sourced from Moon

Void · 2024-12-11 20:19:59

While I mentioned Alice, my purpose was to demonstrate that Aluminum can be a fuel.

Your logic that it might be better to just work with the water is reasonable.

But my resort to Aluminum and Oxygen, is done for the reason to not consume Moon water, when Aluminum and Oxygen may do well enough.

And I suppose I also will hope that there are even better options, although I don't know what they are yet.

But "Good Enough" may be "Good Enough", (Aluminum and Oxygen).

The fixation of persons with Hydro lox on the Moon from Moon water, is evidence of dogma. As soon as a concept is adopted, then it becomes difficult to get persons to update.

For a long time after Apollo, we were told "Bone Dry Moon". I believe that that was because Vampires have always wanted to suck the money out of the dreams of others. And for various reasons they would prefer to feed on the people rather than to raise a thought child to maturation.

For a long time before the SpaceX era, the only hope was that there might be water from asteroids, and then eventually it was slowly emerging that there may be water in the polar areas of the Moon. The Apollo Era having become Dogma by that time, the power brokers could only imagine doing Apollo again. So, they would want to send some people in balloon suits to prance on the Moon, and perhaps, just perhaps be able to tap into the Moon water to make rocket propellants.

But reality is updating, and it is very likely that there will be lots of robotic labor on the Moon. Now on the occasion that justifies it maybe some Moon water and CO2 can be used for rocket fuel. But since we may be able to develop a "Good Enough" method to launch payloads, without consuming the precious Hydrogen and Carbon, then we may conserve it to make things like plastics and food and so on.

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Last edited by Void (2024-12-11 20:29:24)

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