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A comment on The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements (2018). Parent comment

Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by sillyquiet on Friday January 11, 2019 @10:09AM (#18884011)
This is very true, but my thinking is that cost is almost all front-loaded - once we get equipment up there to accomplish the mining, the launches in support would not be terribly frequent, I think, right?
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Re:The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth e... by danmaz74 on Friday January 11, 2019 @01:04PM (#18885403)
That's possible, depending on how much fuel will the operation consume when in space - and where it will come from. At the moment, I think we would need to send the fuel to move all cargo from Earth. Being able to create it directly in space would change everything, of course.
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