Lunar Mining, Processing & Refining
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of the Space Industry
City Group analysts are expecting the annual revenue of the space industry to hit a trillion dollars by 2040. This is not, assuming any new technologies, just anticipated ones making expected progress at streamlining and improving. A single pair-ball dish or a foot electric solar panel around a meter across that was steadily producing 100 watts on average for a decade could produce over 2,000 kilograms of rocket fuel under electrolysis. If you're expecting to make several hundred dollars on each of those kilograms, then you're looking at somewhere around a hundred thousand dollar return off that single panel or dish. Such a panel might only mass a kilogram, or even less, especially first-generation ones brought from Earth
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