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russianpotato t1_ja71bi5 wrote

Reply to comment by Rondaru in Opinion: Mining on the moon is no longer a loony idea, and Canada can capitalize on it by Gari_305

If you are building stuff on the moon you're for sure mining the 600 billion kilograms of water ice already discovered and can make all the gas you need!

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Rondaru t1_ja76rqv wrote

At a concentration of 1000 parts per million in the soil you'd have to move and kick up a lot more destructive regolith dust than you'd ever hope to get enough gas out of it to protect the excavator from that dust. Not to mention that you're just utterly wasting the most precious resource of all on the Moon.

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russianpotato t1_ja7q23f wrote

You're thinkin of the water in the actual moon dust. I was referencing the recently found actual water ice found at the poles. You didn't follow any of that and the proposed Chinese and US moonbase because of it?

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