Life support cooked up from lunar rocks

Phys.Org ^ | 24 September 2021 | Europlanet

[blueplum]

Engineers have successfully shown how water and oxygen can be extracted by cooking up lunar soil, in order to support future Moon bases. A laboratory demonstrator, developed by a consortium of the Politecnico Milano, the European Space Agency, the Italian Space Agency and the OHB Group, is presented this week at the Europlanet Science Congress (EPSC) 2021....

...In the experimental set-up, the soil simulant is vaporized in the presence of hydrogen and methane, then "washed" with hydrogen gas. ...

[blueplum]

now this is pretty cool. Might need cows, tho, for the methane.

[Nateman]

Getting the Hydrogen and Nitrogen needed is the issue.

[william clark]

So Robinson Crusoe on Mars wasn’t that far-fetched, it seems.

[PIF]

Getting the Hydrogen and Nitrogen needed is the issue.

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And in the necessary volume on demand.