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Revision as of 01:35, 18 October 2006

Contents

PRELUDE

WHERE TO

THE RETURN

BREAKOUT AGENDA

SETTLEMENT GROWTH

Lunar Industry

Modular Factories from Earth

Building & Manufacturing Materials

  • Metal Alloys
  • Glass Composites
  • Sulfur Composites

Habitat & Connector Modules

Outfitting Products

  • Interior dividers
  • Interior surfaces
  • Furnishing Products

Agricultural & Horticultural Products

Arts & Crafts

Industrial Diversification Strategies

The "MUS/cle" guide to industrial priorities

Institute of Lunar-Appropriate industrial design

Prerequisites Outline

Building & Manufacturing materials

Habitat expansion modules

Interior building systems

Furniture & furnishings

Fabrics & apparel

Food Processing

Utility systems

Power generation & storage systems

Transportation components

other

Manufacturing Protocols

Recycling Needs

  • Assembled for ease of disassembly to enable recycling by material
  • Alternatives to use of bonding adhesives

Small Market Challenges

  • Finished goods lines
  • Customer-finish lines

Lunar Architecture

A modular "language"

Ease of assembly

Varied plans

Integrated modular biospherics

Special structures

  • Lunar hi-rises and skyscrapers
  • Observation towers
  • other

Urban Systems

City planning

Transit systems

Air-circulation systems

Drainage systems

Farm areas

Park areas

Wild areas

other

Surface transport

Frogs & Toads - converted lunar ferry crew cabins

  • Passenger coaches
  • Construction shacks
  • Private coaches

Railroads

  • Market
Passengers
Freight
Bulk
  • Tracks
Thermal expansion issue
Switching issue
Derailment avoidance issue
Vestibulation issue
Gauge
  • Motive power
Solar electric network
Polar power tower network
Maglev
Conventional
Nuclear
Fuel cell
Lunar fuels
  • Right of way
Real estate grants
Siding-based starter settlements
Pipelines
Roads

Roads

  • Construction
  • Route definition
  • Junctions
  • Bridges
  • Tunnels
  • Mare vs. highlands
  • Solar flare sheds
  • Self-service stations
  • Signage protocols
  • Toll roads

Cableways

High volume shielded roadways

High volume pressurized roadways

Vehicle motive power

  • Local power beaming nets
  • Solar power recharging
  • Fuel cells
  • Lunar fuels development
  • Lunar fueled engine development
  • Nuclear
  • Solar

Mass driver suborbital launchers & catchers

other

Cottage Industries

Custom finishing of unfinished manufactured items

Horticulture-based products

Farm products packaging

Farm products processing

Arts & crafts items from home-safe materials and media

Recycling based products

Home Services: decorating, cleaning; garden maintenance, etc.

Biosphere technologies

Water recycling systems

Air purification systems

Humidity control

Modular biospherics

Growing seasons

Climates

  • Temperate plants
  • Subtropical plants
  • Tropical plants
  • Arid zone plants

Biodiversity

Wild zone plants & flowers

Settlement wildlife

Green zones, parks, parkways

House plants

other

Agricultural technologies

The nightspan lighting challenge

Soil from regolith

Nutrient solutions from regolith

Soil enrichment

Hydroponics

Waste biomass recycling

other

Horticulture - homestead gardening

Architectural considerations

  • Lighting
  • Watering systems
  • Gardenscaping

Ornamentals

Food plants

Canning & preserving

Garden-based enterprises

Agricultural Products

Food products

  • Fruits
  • Vegetables
  • Herbs & spices
  • Fiber sources
  • Protein sources
  • Nutrition supplement sources
  • Menu variety and diversity
  • Supported cuisines
  • Food processing
  • Local marketing specialties
  • Later developments
Small livestock

Fibers

Pharmaceuticals

John Washington Carver style processing suites

Jewelry woods

other

Substitutions for organics, synthetics

Paper substitutes

Plastic substitutes

Wood substitutes

Lubricants

Adhesives

other

Lunar Service Satellite systems

Stable orbits

Ground positioning

Search & rescue

Solar weather monitors

other

TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE

HEALTHY CITIZENS