Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar regolith simulants

Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by gene-h on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:23PM (#34794561)

Lava tubes have been measured to be quite warm[0]. This study concludes that "Neither [regolith or PSRs can provide] a abundant long-term supply of carbon to support a sustainable human presence on the Moon"[1] Although permanently shadowed craters are not very well understood.

[0]https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GL09... [1]https://arxiv.org/pdf/2104.13521.pdf

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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by Vikerchu on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @02:36PM (#34794738)

Doesn't moon dust give you giga cancer? Well i guess its a cave...

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Re:Blue Origin manufactured solar cell prototype from lunar ... by shagie on Tuesday February 14, 2023 @03:20PM (#34795386)

The cave is to reduce the need for cosmic ray and micrometeoroid shelter (it's easier to build in a balloon in a cave than it is to build on the surface and fortify it).

Moon dust is toxic and jagged ( https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Human_and_Robotic_Ex... and https://www.livescience.com/62590-moon-dust-bad-lungs-brain.... ).

> In several lab tests, a single scoop of replica moon dust proved toxic enough to kill up to 90 percent of the lung and brain cells exposed to it.

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