Jed Rothwell wrote:
I wrote:
There is some debate about how much of these precious metals are
available elsewhere in the solar system, but I do not think this
matters much. Once you leave the Earth's atmosphere and go to the
moon or an asteroid, you can then use raw solar energy to vaporize as
much low-grade or as you like . . .
I meant "low-grade ore." Regarding the prospects for prospecting the
solar system, see this interesting web site:
http://www.permanent.com/intro.htm
This web site is kind of unorganized. For lunar materials, see:
http://www.permanent.com/l-overvw.htm
Not many metal ores there, at least on the surface. Maybe asteroids or
Mars would be a better choice.
- Jed
I'm in the National Space Society these guys seem to be reinventing the
wheel. We've already got everything worked out in the L5 society and the
other derivations. All we need is the key propulsion solutions: that's
the Ares heavy lift system. And a way to pay for it: that's the space
tourism angle, the space prizes and good off earth ownership laws
(blocked by the socialist law of space) Some of their design work on
this web site is obsolite. Why don't they call a Stanford torus a
Stanford torus? These guys are verging on plagerism for no good reason.
