The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Keep Billions Alive for 100k Years(thedailybeast.com)

The Moon Has Enough Oxygen to Keep Billions Alive for 100k Years

https://www.thedailybeast.com/lunar-regolith-has-oxygen-to-keep-billions-alive-on-the-moon-for-over-100000-years

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It’d take a ton of energy but I suppose it’s theoretically possible.

The article basically says that moon rock/dust are oxides which have oxygen to extract—we can easily figure out the Gibbs free energy required to break apart silicates (for example) into oxygen, but I can almost guarantee we won’t like the answer.

I estimate it will be on the order of thousands of square meters+ of solar panels to sustain a human, which doesn’t seem sustainable at all. That doesn’t include what to do with the leftover base materials or catalysts.

Bringing photosynthesizing plants into the ecosystem in such a way that they could survive it makes much more sense based on first principles.

WalterGR5 anni fa

Moon’s top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8B people for 100k years (https://theconversation.com/the-moons-top-layer-alone-has-en...)

189 points|samizdis|23 hours ago|200 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29196304

policipal5 anni fa

and what happens after 100k years? do billions simply suffocate and die? Seems like a kick the can down the road sort of plan. lol.