Lunarpedia:Outline draft/TRADE AND THE BOTTOM LINE
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Contents
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)
- Direct Power (i.e. via laser or microwave transmission)
- Solar Cell arrays
- Helium-3
- Building materials for Solar Power Satellites
- other
