Lunar Mining, Processing & Refining
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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How to Get Resources Off the Moon
Blue Origin has been working on blue alchemist, their solar panel design made from lunar-regulars similence. The process is entirely electricity-based and appears to be much more environmentally cleaner than currently employed methods for getting silicon. If you can get 90% of your mass on the moon instead of Earth, that massively alters the space economy. It also creates one, since you have all that industry and freight capacity to and from the moon that would make other industrial and economic sectors easier to start and piggyback off of.
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