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A simple link would have sufficed. The problem with this sort of speculative fiction disguised as fact is that although the base science is probably sound Ie linear motors exist, and this is just an extension of these, the surrounding infrastructure isn't economically feasible or desirable. Just how much of the total US GDP do you think it would take to plant a white elephant like this on the moon? And once you get it there what does the moon have that anyone wants? We have plenty of rocks here that are a whole lot cheaper and more valuable (like coal)

plus the article glosses of such things as With the advent of space-based industry and the demand for products and materials,

What spaced based industry? There isn't any and statements such as "After lunar soil is excavated, transported, refined using simple conventional means

Like this was a mere bagetelle. Iron mills on the moon? Go to any big industrial plant, and then look at what feed it and what feeds that and so for. Try reading Leonard Reeds, I pencil to get an idea of what an industrial base is.

This article is science fiction again.