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It's more that it's a very sensitive process with a lot of very delicate steps that'll be hard to setup. To get it started there will be some challenges adaptin
by rtkwe 8y ago
It's more that it's a very sensitive process with a lot of very delicate steps that'll be hard to setup. To get it started there will be some challenges adapting the processes to the lower gravity I'm sure and if it's not being manufactured on the moon transitioning the machines to microgravity is an even larger challenge. It's also just that those are some of the lighter components so building them on earth and launching them for outfitting in space will be ok for a while.
Also there's a lot of chemicals used in chip manufacturing that we probably can't get on the moon at least at first in addition to just getting the silicon pure enough and the other doping elements.
I'm not sure about the energy requirements but it should be doable.
- all2 8y agoPart of what I was thinking of was solar panels. It makes sense (to me) to have large stuff like that manufactured on site.
- rtkwe 8y agoYeah ultimately they should be made on site. There's a lot of materials that go into them though that may not be procurable on the moon until there's a much larger mining and refinery operation.