Tag: resources


  • What the regolith and the polar volatiles supply as materials—oxygen, metals, silicon, construction feedstock, the radioactive accessory minerals, and the alloy and ceramic pathways—and how ESA, NASA, ESRIC, and the commercial sector are building the supply chain. The organizing principle Industrial feedstocks are different from energy resources in one decisive respect: they are mass-dominated. A…

  • What the Moon can supply for power—fission, fusion, solar feedstock, hydrogen, storage, and the chemical and isotopic niches—and what the sourcing literature actually says about each. The organizing principle Lunar energy resources are not a single inventory. They divide along the same line that organized the nuclear-fuel compendium: consumable fuels versus capital infrastructure. A fusion…