A Cable Transportation System at the Earths Poles to Support Exploitation of the Moon
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Author - A.A. Bolonkin et al
Co-Author(s) - A. A. Bolonkin; R. B. Cathcart
JBIS Volume # - 59
Page # - 375-380
Year - 2006
Keywords - Earth-Moon transport system, cable space transport system
JBIS Reference Code # - 2006.59.375
Number of Pages - 6
[edit] Abstract
The prospect for non-rocket space transportation system creates an opportunity for new macro-engineering initiatives related to lunar economic development and Earth's ecological sustainability. We propose a macroproject that will transfer collected seawater from the Arctic Ocean and compressed carbon dioxide gas from the planet's atmosphere via a conveyer belt-like space transport system to the Moon. Creation of a subterranean cave or surface dome-enclosed lunar seawater reservoir (lake, ocean) will permit remarkable industrial transformations of the Moon's crust; carbon dioxide is a useful industrial gas, perhaps worthy of bulk transport to the Moon. Abstraction of carbon dioxide gas and seawater, and its conveyance via a Cable Space Transportation System cable cabins, will result in a slight geo-engineering of Earth
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