Here is the lunar soil as analyzed by Sen Harrison Schmidt with whom I spoke about the resources.
Mine the moon and you have silicon for solar cells! Iron which can be made into steel. Aluminum and the list goes on.
Here is the lunar soil as analyzed by Sen Harrison Schmidt with whom I spoke about the resources.
Mine the moon and you have silicon for solar cells! Iron which can be made into steel. Aluminum and the list goes on.
maybe because of all the comets that hit it?
Hydrogen?
No— Just worthless rock but how much of your grandkids money do you want to spend on that mine? I can get all the silicon you want down at my beach house.
Silicon is the second most abundant element (after oxygen) in the Earth's crust, making up 25.7% of the crust by mass.
>> Right about the water but otherwise there is ice!
Here is the lunar soil as analyzed by Sen Harrison Schmidt with whom I spoke about the resources.
Mine the moon and you have silicon for solar cells! Iron which can be made into steel. Aluminum and the list goes on. <<
The best way to mine the moon is to use “Self-Replicating Clanking Replicators to use solar energy to smelt and mine materials and then use the material to make a replica of the same factory a KM away and then repeat the process, work in a line around the equator of the moon that way you can power the factories on the dark side with light from the sunny side.
Build a giant “Belt of Industry” around the moons equator and you would have enough resources at your disposal to build Giant Multi-Generational Starships!!!! Not to mention colonizing the solar system and building giant space habitats.
Plus the Equator is a good place to launch cargo into Lunar orbit using EM-rail launchers.