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Re:Factories in Space by nradov on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @12:16PM (#36126644)
In theory you can synthesize petroleum, polymers, or any similar chemicals out of elemental hydrogen / carbon / oxygen / nitrogen / etc. It just takes enormous amounts of energy, some expensive catalysts, and an large heavy physical plant. So in practice we're not going to be able to do chemical manufacturing in space at scale for several centuries at least.

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