A reactor heated to 1,600°C can melt raw Moon dust into finished solar cells, glass and wire, with nothing launched from Earth. The exact same trick turns cheap desert sand into panels back home, with zero carbon.

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A reactor heated to 1,600°C can melt raw Moon dust into finished solar cells, glass and wire, with nothing launched from Earth. The exact same trick turns cheap desert sand into panels back home, with zero carbon. (www.autonocion.com)

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>Everything that rides a rocket has to earn its seat, because lifting mass off the ground is still priced by the pound and the bill is brutal. A water tank, a bag of bolts and a solar panel all ride up at the same eye-watering rate, which is why engineers burn careers shaving grams off hardware that then has to survive a launch and work in a vacuum. Blue Origin’s answer to that arithmetic is to stop shipping one of the heaviest things a Moon base needs and grow it on site instead. The company wants to make solar panels out of the dust already lying on the lunar surface, with nothing in the cargo hold: no panels, no glass, no wire. Dirt goes into a reactor, finished solar cells come out the far end.

Archive: https://archive.today/Q0LDP From the post: >>Everything that rides a rocket has to earn its seat, because lifting mass off the ground is still priced by the pound and the bill is brutal. A water tank, a bag of bolts and a solar panel all ride up at the same eye-watering rate, which is why engineers burn careers shaving grams off hardware that then has to survive a launch and work in a vacuum. Blue Origin’s answer to that arithmetic is to stop shipping one of the heaviest things a Moon base needs and grow it on site instead. The company wants to make solar panels out of the dust already lying on the lunar surface, with nothing in the cargo hold: no panels, no glass, no wire. Dirt goes into a reactor, finished solar cells come out the far end.

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Dirt goes into a reactor, finished solar cells come out the far end.

Yeah, that's how it works. Strange how don't do this same exact thing on Earth but instead use huge factories with specialized equipment and refined materials to make solar panels, glass and wire. How stupid are we when we can just shovel dirt into a reactor and out pops solar panels and wire?

I'll believe it when such a machine is doing that work on Earth and replacing the existing industries that make these things. More fantastical bullshit from (((grifters))).

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In all seriousness, is it why they are sending niggers and jeets as cargo in space?

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Yes, yes. As cargo. That's the ticket.

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If it's so simple, why doesn't every moon-person do it?

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