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* LEO/Lunar Tourists [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml] [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_future_of_lunar_tourism.shtml] | * LEO/Lunar Tourists [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/tourism_in_low_earth_orbit_the_trigger_for_commercial_development.shtml] [http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/the_future_of_lunar_tourism.shtml] | ||
* CisLunar Industries and Settlements [http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/nasa_administra.html] | * CisLunar Industries and Settlements [http://aviationweek.typepad.com/space/2007/03/nasa_administra.html] | ||
== Getting Started == | |||
1. Estimate size of initial market for: | |||
* NASA South Pole Base | |||
* Boomtown Starter Tourist Facility | |||
* Our own staff | |||
* Other likely early Boomtown settlers | |||
2. Estimate operating costs | |||
* Initial equipment | |||
* Salaries initial operations | |||
* Depreciation of equipment | |||
3. Project Revenues (set prices) | |||
4. Acquire long term contracts with NASA and other customers, if possible | |||
5. Upgrade plan to meet growth in demand. | |||
6. Franchise to other Lunar Settlements | |||
7. Establish export to LEO, cisLunar and interplanetary facilties | |||
== Plant Development, Installation, and Operation == | |||
1. Select plant design for minimal risk and operating costs | |||
2. Contract for shipping to facitily location | |||
3. Acquire deed to site or merely appropriate good location? | |||
4. Hire and contract for adequate training of installation stall. | |||
5. Hire and contract for operations staff ... staff housing? families? retention? etc. | |||
6. Place all supporting admin and tech staff possible at Terran HQ and use teleoperations and teleconferencing where possible. i.e. Vendor contracting, bookkeeping, payroll, plant monitoring, sales staff, etc. on Earth | |||
Begin initial operations. | |||
Begin incremental upgrades as feasible per TQM (Total Quality Management) and business management. | |||
== Possibly Applicable Technical Papers == | == Possibly Applicable Technical Papers == | ||
Revision as of 18:45, 25 September 2007
It is an interesting fact that if you heat lunar regolith to the proper temperature it releases oxygen as some of the minerals breakdown. This oxygen can then be cooled to a liquid and bottled.
There is an interesting NASA contest to design a tiny lox extraction plant for a demonstrator. [1]
How can we make money off of such a common place material so easy to extract?
What can we do if others start combining lox extraction with other processes to make more efficient use of the energy consumed? Upgrade or liquidate.
Initial Capital Investment Required
Market Analysis
Who can we sell Lunar Lox to?
Getting Started
1. Estimate size of initial market for:
- NASA South Pole Base
- Boomtown Starter Tourist Facility
- Our own staff
- Other likely early Boomtown settlers
2. Estimate operating costs
- Initial equipment
- Salaries initial operations
- Depreciation of equipment
3. Project Revenues (set prices) 4. Acquire long term contracts with NASA and other customers, if possible 5. Upgrade plan to meet growth in demand. 6. Franchise to other Lunar Settlements 7. Establish export to LEO, cisLunar and interplanetary facilties
Plant Development, Installation, and Operation
1. Select plant design for minimal risk and operating costs 2. Contract for shipping to facitily location 3. Acquire deed to site or merely appropriate good location? 4. Hire and contract for adequate training of installation stall. 5. Hire and contract for operations staff ... staff housing? families? retention? etc. 6. Place all supporting admin and tech staff possible at Terran HQ and use teleoperations and teleconferencing where possible. i.e. Vendor contracting, bookkeeping, payroll, plant monitoring, sales staff, etc. on Earth
Begin initial operations.
Begin incremental upgrades as feasible per TQM (Total Quality Management) and business management.
Possibly Applicable Technical Papers
- http://web.utk.edu/~pgi/lunar/page1.html A slide show explaining what is in lunar soils and how to process the content to acquire oxygen, hydrogen and rocket feul.
- http://www2.potsdam.edu/exochemistry/process.htm A summary of various techniques of producing oxygen from regolith.