Genuinely curious about the plan here. Fission or fusion? Rankine cycle? Working fluid? Fuel from earth or lunar mine? Waste heat moved where/how? Structural materials - regolith? payload from earth? If fission, waste where? 100 kW capacity - OK, used for what? Continuous or intermittent load?
Administrator Road Rules is I'm sure eager to learn what those words mean.
You’re asking too many appropriate questions. Just vibe with it. /s
All necessary material components (including fuel) can be refined and fabricated out of moonstuff -- assuming adequate energy supplies. How much of the lunar surface do we have to cover with solar panels to get this ball rolling?
Well, it’s probably not fusion. Because we can’t do that yet.
Well then it’s decided. Fusion it is.
I'm sure one of the billionaire tech bros would be happy to sell him some moon dust. (To be fair, there *has* been some speculation about mining helium-3 on the moon for fusion.)
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The plan is to keep burning fossil fuels
I love this bit when you pretend this flock of Dunning-Krugers don't have their feathers on backwards.
had to google, ngl 🤣
2030, bit that point they'll probably have to ask the Chinese to lend them a hand to get it there because $paceX blew through all the budged building large firecrackers and launching useless satellites.
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build a nuke on earth (let alone the moon) by 2030 challenge