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> The real constraint is not materials It's solvents, lubricants, cooling, and all the other boring industrial components and feedstocks that people seem to fo
by giantrobot 8mo ago
> The real constraint is not materials
It's solvents, lubricants, cooling, and all the other boring industrial components and feedstocks that people seem to forget exist. Just because raw materials exist in lunar regolith doesn't mean much if you can't actually smelt and refine it into useful forms.
- andsoitis 8mo agoBoth China and the US are working on building nuclear reactors on the moon, so presumably they see line of sight on those matters? https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-nuclear-reactor-nasa-moon https://spectrum.ieee.org/lunar-nuclear-reactor-nasa-moon