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#1 Yesterday 18:58:44
- Void
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Tunnel Arch Build Method
Actually an arch of blocks: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … 7ce146a0fd Quote:
No Mortar, No Cement… Just Bricks and a Truck! ? #tunnel #engineering #truck #construction
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Here is another video: https://www.bing.com/videos/riverview/r … &FORM=VIRE Quote:
Truck Builds Tunnels Without Concrete—You Won’t Believe How!
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So very clever. The question is how to make the bricks then? For the Moon, For Mars?
Ideally I would want to seem them sintered from regolith, for the Moon. I don't know if that can be done.
No, I am told Iron cannot be worked in a Mond process.
Well, I am thinking of Iron anyway, as a mortar on the Moon but not Mars.
I am hoping that the use of inductive heating could melt it if it were placed between blocks.
On the Moon unless escaping gasses would rust the Iron, I don't expect the Iron to rust.
On the Moon the blocks would weigh 1/6th, so the "Truck" would not have to be as sturdy.
Perhaps a block could be manufactured during the day, and allowed to cool slowly during the Lunar night, providing heat during the night to some other process such as a dwelling.
While my first instinct is to think of using these things to "Garage" a Starship converted, to a dwelling, I also think that if you could make a metal balloon you might make that inflatable, or import an inflatable balloon from Earth.
But the arch-make method is very clever.
Ending Pending 
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