Lunarpedia:Outline draft/WHERE TO - Revision history

Strangelv: Added Mare Anguis under Mare-Highland Coast

2006-10-29T12:53:58Z

Added Mare Anguis under Mare-Highland Coast

Mdelaney at 02:37, 27 October 2006

2006-10-27T02:37:54Z

Strangelv: Changed header levels

2006-10-23T13:31:49Z

Changed header levels

Mdelaney at 11:46, 18 October 2006

2006-10-18T11:46:46Z

Mdelaney at 10:17, 18 October 2006

2006-10-18T10:17:40Z

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==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/PRELUDE|PRELUDE]]==

==WHERE TO==

===Major Challenges to Settling the Moon===
====Dayspan Heat - Nightspan Cold====
*The thermal problem as a superficial one in absence of a heat convecting atmosphere
:Shading joints, lubricated areas, material interface areas
:Development of cryo-lubricants
:Operations management issues
:Using materials with near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion
:Using materials that are both heat- and cold-hardy
====Dust Control Problems====
*Exploring electrostatic dust repulsion systems
*Turtle back spacesuits & conformal airlocks* (*also minimizes airlock cycling losses of oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor)
*Biodegradable suit and boot coverings
*Paving or sintering vehicle and pedestrian approaches to airlocks
*Covering joints and lubricated areas to minimize dust problem
====Power Options dayspan====
*Solar concentrators
*Solar panels
*Circum global solar powered supermagnetic belt
*Solar arrays distributing beamed power by relay sats
*L4, L5, L1, L2
*Lunar polar power tower global networks
*Nuclear
:Waste treatment
:Waste disposal
:Lunar nuclear fuels industry
:Scavenging nuclear wastes from Earth
:A lunar nuclear fuels industry based on the thorium 232 > uranium 233 cycle
====Power Options nightspan====
*Nuclear (see subcategories under Power Options Dayspan)
*Potentiation cycles - storing potential energy
:Water-oxygen fuel cells
:Flywheels
:Storage rings
:Hydroelectric loops
:Magma pools
:other
*Operations management
:Energy intensive dayspan tasks
:Energy-light nightspan tasks

===Site Type Pros & Cons===
====Polar Sites====
*Pros
:Both poles have "peaks of eternal sunshine" for power generation
:Thermal conditions do not vary greatly through the sunth (lunar month)
:Both poles are in the center of extensive coldtrap or permashade areas where we expect to find water-ice deposits
*Cons
:Both poles are rugged highland areas in which construction may be difficult
:The sunlight always comes in at, just above, or just below the horizon sibility and location identification problems
:The high amount of total tonnage needed to erect a solar power tower system
:Expected polar ice-deposits are of unknown quantity, concentration, and difficulty of extraction
:All our efforts mastering the challenges of the polar areas, will not prepare or enable us to set up outposts elsewhere on the Moon
:The polar highlands do not offer all the resources needed for industrialization
:Solar wind hydrogen, with which to make water, is available anywhere on the Moon
====Mare-Highland Coast sites====
*Pros
:Access to both major regolith suites
:Some coastal sites are also ilmenite rich
:Some coastal sites may involve potassium and phosphorus rich KREEP deposits
:Some coastal sites involve subsurface lavatubes
:Maria provide extensive areas of obstacle free transit
:Some coastal sites are much closer to the nearest circumpolar coldtraps, than either pole itself is to the nearest coast
:other
*Cons
:Extreme dayspan-nightspan temperature swings are a challenge to vehicle and structure design, as well as to lubricants
:The need to store up enough power during dayspan to get through the lunar nightspan
:Counterpoint: mastering these twin challenges will allow us to set up shop and settle anywhere on the Moon.

==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/THE RETURN|THE RETURN]]==
==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/BREAKOUT AGENDA|BREAKOUT AGENDA]]==
==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/SETTLEMENT GROWTH|SETTLEMENT GROWTH]]==
==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE|TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE]]==
==[[Lunarpedia:Outline_draft/HEALTHY CITIZENS|HEALTHY CITIZENS]]==

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 *Pros
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-==WHERE TO==
+=WHERE TO=
-===Major Challenges to Settling the Moon===
+==Major Challenges to Settling the Moon==
-====Dayspan Heat - Nightspan Cold====
+===Dayspan Heat - Nightspan Cold===
 *The thermal problem as a superficial one in absence of a heat convecting atmosphere
 :Shading joints, lubricated areas, material interface areas
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 :Using materials with near-zero coefficient of thermal expansion
 :Using materials that are both heat- and cold-hardy
-====Dust Control Problems====
+===Dust Control Problems===
 *Exploring electrostatic dust repulsion systems
 *Turtle back spacesuits & conformal airlocks* (*also minimizes airlock cycling losses of oxygen, nitrogen, water vapor)
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 *Paving or sintering vehicle and pedestrian approaches to airlocks
 *Covering joints and lubricated areas to minimize dust problem
-====Power Options dayspan====
+===Power Options dayspan===
 *Solar concentrators
 *Solar panels
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 :Scavenging nuclear wastes from Earth
 :A lunar nuclear fuels industry based on the thorium 232 > uranium 233 cycle
-====Power Options nightspan====
+===Power Options nightspan===
 *Nuclear (see subcategories under Power Options Dayspan)
 *Potentiation cycles - storing potential energy
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 :Energy-light nightspan tasks
-===Site Type Pros & Cons===
+==Site Type Pros & Cons==
-====Polar Sites====
+===Polar Sites===
 *Pros
 :Both poles have "peaks of eternal sunshine" for power generation
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 :The polar highlands do not offer all the resources needed for industrialization
 :Solar wind hydrogen, with which to make water, is available anywhere on the Moon
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+===Mare-Highland Coast sites===
 *Pros
 :Access to both major regolith suites
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 :Counterpoint: mastering these twin challenges will allow us to set up shop and settle anywhere on the Moon.
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