Energy for lunar resource exploitation

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Feb 1992

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1992lmt..symp.....g&link_type=abstract

In Arizona Univ., Proceedings of the Lunar Materials Technology Symposium 8 p (SEE N93-27956 10-91)

Computer Science

Economic Factors, Lunar Mining, Lunar Resources, Space Commercialization, Space Industrialization, Space Manufacturing, Ecology, Helium Isotopes, Lunar Rocks, Lunar Soil

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Humanity stands at the threshold of exploiting the known lunar resources that have opened up with the access to space. America's role in the future exploitation of space, and specifically of lunar resources, may well determine the level of achievement in technology development and global economic competition. Space activities during the coming decades will significantly influence the events on Earth. The 'shifting of history's tectonic plates' is a process that will be hastened by the increasingly insistent demands for higher living standards of the exponentially growing global population. Key to the achievement of a peaceful world in the 21st century, will be the development of a mix of energy resources at a societally acceptable and affordable cost within a realistic planning horizon. This must be the theme for the globally applicable energy sources that are compatible with the Earth's ecology. It is in this context that lunar resources development should be a primary goal for science missions to the Moon, and for establishing an expanding human presence. The economic viability and commercial business potential of mining, extracting, manufacturing, and transporting lunar resource based materials to Earth, Earth orbits, and to undertake macroengineering projects on the Moon remains to be demonstrated. These extensive activities will be supportive of the realization of the potential of space energy sources for use on Earth. These may include generating electricity for use on Earth based on beaming power from Earth orbits and from the Moon to the Earth, and for the production of helium 3 as a fuel for advanced fusion reactors.

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