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*other
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*highly isolated sites for toxic or otherwise dangerous processes
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*sites for 1/6 g processes and manufacturing
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*postal covers/cancellations and similar certification services
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*professional and legal services
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*repair, refueling, and other mechanical services
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*"moondust" and other minerals
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*meteorites (more pristine than those on Earth)
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*[[Solar Power Satellites]] construction
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*shielding
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*fuel and/or oxidizer
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*space colony construction
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*optics and telescopes
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*solar cell raw materials
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*trained personnel
 
===Technology licenses===
 
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*Dance, sport, music, etc.
 
*Dance, sport, music, etc.
 
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===Other "zero-mass" products===
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*astronomical data
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*detailed maps
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*geological/selenological information (data)
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*remote sensing data (e.g. of the Earth and/or Sun)
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*consulting and "distance teaching" by experts working on the Moon
 
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*Solar Cell arrays
 
*[[helium3|Helium-3]]
 
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Revision as of 07:23, 20 July 2007

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PRELUDE

WHERE TO

THE RETURN

BREAKOUT AGENDA

SETTLEMENT GROWTH

TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE

Exports & Market Development

Specific markets

  • Low Earth Orbit industrial parks
  • Low Earth Orbit tourist facilities
  • Mars, Phobos, Deimos
made-on-Luna heavy equipment
Nuclear fuels (lunar thorium 232 > uranium 233)
Seasoned pioneers
Technology expertise
  • Asteroids
  • other

Value added product types

  • Products made for domestic use
  • Construction materials
  • Furnishings
  • Arts & crafts
  • Unique jewelry
  • Food products
  • New crop variety seeds
  • Lunar-sourced chemical fuels
  • Lunar-produced nuclear fuels (the thorium 232 > uranium 233 cycle), essential to the opening of Mars to settlement
  • other

Services

  • archival storage
  • mausoleum
  • highly isolated sites for toxic or otherwise dangerous processes
  • sites for 1/6 g processes and manufacturing
  • postal covers/cancellations and similar certification services
  • professional and legal services
  • repair, refueling, and other mechanical services

Raw materials to Earth

  • "moondust" and other minerals
  • meteorites (more pristine than those on Earth)

Raw Materials for Off-Earth Markets

  • Solar Power Satellites construction
  • shielding
  • fuel and/or oxidizer
  • space colony construction
  • optics and telescopes
  • solar cell raw materials

Human Resources for Off-Earth Markets

  • labor pool
  • trained personnel

Technology licenses

  • Biospheric technologies
  • Agricultural technologies
  • Recycling technologies
  • Building material technologies
  • Poor ore mining technologies
  • other

Infotainment products

  • Travelogues
  • Explorations
  • Dance, sport, music, etc.

Other "zero-mass" products

  • astronomical data
  • detailed maps
  • geological/selenological information (data)
  • remote sensing data (e.g. of the Earth and/or Sun)
  • consulting and "distance teaching" by experts working on the Moon

Energy exports

  • Lunar fuels
Hydrogen
Oxygen
Silane
other
Lunar processed nuclear fuels (thorium 232 > uranium 233)

Development of other export markets

LEO industrial parks

LEO tourist clusters

GEO satellite farm-platforms

L4, L5 Lunar Flank relays, telescopes

L1, L2 Lunar Gateways for people, cargo

Asteroid mission support

Mars, Phobos, Deimos

Other

Imports

The "MUS/cle strategy" for Import Reduction

Institute of Lunar-apropriate Industrial Design

Stowaway import strategies

Development of locally made substitutes

Going without

Developing other import market sources

Phobos, Deimos (methane, ammonia?)

Mars ("pipeline" inventory items)

Near-Earth asteroids (volatiles, lunar-deficient elements)

comets (volatiles)

other

HEALTHY CITIZENS

UNIVERSITY OF LUNA

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