...thousands of tons of solar cells, aluminum electrical wire, bricks, fiber glass, structural metals and other products sent off to habitats that sail around
We do not know all the details of a future lunar settlement, but we could make a prediction of that settlement more likely b
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...iles harvester will be the key piece of industrial equipment for the first lunar settlement.
One possible lunar volatiles harvester design is described in [[Sandworms]]. This article con
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...oduct. Since it is impossible to ship such a thing to Luna, those against lunar colonies suggest people should not try.
...ng foundations. They could hand lay sintered bricks and weave reinforcing glass cables through holes in the brick.
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...e of toilet to be used on the moon. The possible extraction of water from lunar ice at the poles and the use of such water to produce rocket fuel by electr
...everely because when it is gone, hydrogen will need to be imported to keep lunar industry running.
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===Lunar Tourism===
*Geological/scenic preserves & Lunar National Parks
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...ly be developed further to allow mass emigration from Earth and to deliver lunar materials to orbit for building the homes for emigrants, space habitats.
...A similar device would work for moving from orbital speed to a stop on the lunar surface. The first place and the easiest place to deploy an eddy current br
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...g from an estimated cost of at least $6,000 per pound for achieving direct lunar transfer orbit, without the cost of developing a payload, I get at least $1
...y controlled industry on the moon to produce the sintered regolith bricks, glass fiber cables, steel and other metals; grade the foundation for the tube and
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...s Test Facility'' Two-Stage Light Gas Guns] </ref> but to launch things to lunar escape velocity only requires 2400 meters per second. The task seems doabl
...n weighs about 32 kg, about 70% oxygen. Shells could hold spools of fiber glass or sifted sand of various types. Most things that could be mined or manufa
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...oxide based fiber glass can be obtained on the moon and launched into cis-lunar space. That requires economic launching into orbit from the moon. One way
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This is a discussion of one possible architecture for lunar settlements. There are many other possibilities. This one assumes that la
==Generations of Lunar Buildings==
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This is a concept for lunar industrial development.
...possible to produce a space based solar power (SBSP) system for Earth from lunar materials, but the economics cause difficult constraints and the current ge
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We need to be open to out-of-box thinking. This entry is part of a new lunar settlement design and is a discussion of how the concept of symbiosis appli
...out-of-box thinking. It is about symbiosis and what that means to all our lunar futures.
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Objections, as presented by a peculiarly inept and accommodating opponent to lunar industrialization, and answers follow:
...me way as the USA built the Panama Canal with government money. Consider a Lunar Rocket-sled to Orbit to be a public works project.
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