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Lunar Mining, Processing & Refining

Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur

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The Benefits of Metallosis

electrolysis takes more energy to separate water than recombining it is going to get you. It's a good way to make an energy-rich portable fuel for rockets, rovers or smaller satellite facilities. You can then burn that hydrogen and oxygen right back together into water as a rocket propellant. In the absence of readily available water though, we have an alternative to electrolysis: metallosis or cracking rock.

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