Henry Spencer wrote:
> NASA looked at this for SEI, and concluded that supplying one lunar
> mission a year with LOX/LH2 required a 400kW electrolysis plant running
> continuously in LEO.
They decided what? Are THEY daft? How big a settlement are they
looking to supply? How much recycling are they expecting to do
on-site? This is ridiculous. And even if you needed that much, ship it
to Luna as water and split it on the surface. You'd need a decent
power plant on the moon anyway, and you've lots of space to set out
solar arrays if you don't like SNAPs or GE's 300kW refrigerator sized
power plants.
> The practical way to ship hydrogen at room temperature is probably as a
> metal hydride or related compound. There are hydrides which have slightly
> more hydrogen per kilogram than water does, *and*, more important, will
> decompose on mild heating.
Now if they just had lots of oxygen too they'd be useful. 8-)
Or you could take peroxide and silver screens for your oxygen but ...
Michael
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