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He means that you use carbon monoxide and iron-compound-rich mars dust to get elemental iron and carbon dioxide.
by im3w1l 4y ago
He means that you use carbon monoxide and iron-compound-rich mars dust to get elemental iron and carbon dioxide.
- PaulHoule 4y agoThis is how a blast furnace works https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_furnace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blast_furnace since it partially burns coke to make CO which reduces FeO to Fe producing CO2. An alternate approach is to reduce FeO with hydrogen producing H2O. Either way this is likely to be a circular process in a space economy since volatiles like H2O and CO2 are precious.