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Chris Vancil — (archived)

The current Lunar argument is economical...

That is to say they claim broadly to be able to make money at the Moon. With such things as PGM and He3. One needing a hydrogen economy to justify the finding and extracting platinum for fuel cells for cars from the Lunar regolith and the other fusion reactors that use it.

Or better yet oxygen derived from the regolith placed in orbit and use as fuel!!!

Supposedly Dr. Michael Duke and associated have proven this last one in a series of papers.

How long does cryogenically stored oxygen last in Lunar orbit? Who is going to pay for the use of this stored oxygen. How did Duke figure the economics of this idea?

Any system made to extract oxygen form the very rocky soil of the Moon is going to cost quite a bit of money and will break down often. The cost maybe billiions of dollars if done by NASA.

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