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Yes, but realistically one could mine the Moon poles and develop the fuel there... Better yet expand it grow food on moon and refuel and load up on food in moo

• gizmo686 11y ago
  Does growing food on the moon actually help? Unless you can mine the nutrients for the food, you still need to bring up all of the mass that would go into the food, at which point you might as well just bring up already processed food (which would also be denser in value/weight). The main benefit of growing food in space is that it lets you recycle nutrients. (I am including the atmospheric gasses as nutrients in this).
  • david-given 11y ago
    Yes, you'd have to mine the nutrients there for this to be effective. As you say, there's no point lifting it all from Earth. Organic life is largely made out of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen (the so-called CHON). There's not much carbon or nitrogen. This is one reason why people are so interested in hypothetical ice deposits at the poles. There's a reasonable chance that there'll be stocks of this elements there (in the form of ammonia or hydrocarbons).