Gaia Selene - Saving Earth by Colonizing the Moon

[kiernanh98]

I just figured out how we'll colonize the moon.. Green energy... It's a renewable, you can use it to split H2O, use the H2O as rocket fuel, then once on the moon, use it to put water on the surface of the moon and create an atmosphere while powering tools to build the moon colony..

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 The only place that is a question is how to deal with the dark side and bright side, because the water would boil on days and freeze on nights, but even that could be turned into a energy source, I suppose, if you build heat pipes on the surface, the currents of the change in water temperature would drive turbines that create energy.

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 The flip-side of this is that it would be lowering the oceans here on earth, because the H2O has to come from somewhere.. It would also probably affect the mass of the moon, therby making waves less extreme.

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 Or more extreme, depending on how many rich resources exist on the moon, if there is a lot of mining, it would reduce the mass, not by much, but it could offset the presence of buildings and strucures on the moon, so the mass could be controlled..

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 Another cool thing about ussing H2O to power the rockets, if that is possible is that if the rocket ships ever get stranded, the Oxygen can be used to sustain life until another rocket ship happens by.

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 I also thought of how the rise in renewables would actually drive up the cost of coal and oil, see on days when renewable energy farms are not producing enough energy and the demand is up, that would mean that non-renwables would be needed to prevent rolling blackouts, thus the cost of oil and coal would be extremely high because it is a rare resource. Although it wouldn't sell often..

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 IT would also last longer, and would be used as a fallback, rather than being used in large quantities at a low price, ruining air quality and so on, as it is now..

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 I'd also move to Australia because it has that huge desert that is uninhabited by anything and could be where the wind and solar farms are put. The economy of Australia would rocket.

[kiernanh98]

@kiernanh98 Once you have enough energy to split H2O, you also have a method of creating microchips because you have a clean water resource for depositing silicon for chips, and so you can make more computers, lowering the price of computers, making more iPad's and kindles, of larger sizes, reducing the dependence on paper, protecting CO2 processing that must occur to reduce greenhouse gas.

[trakkaton]

Factual errors:

5. Fusion DOES produce toxic and radioactive waste.

6. The number "40 tons" is ridiculous because there is no time span given in the claim that that amount would provide sufficient energy for the US. These aren't scientists speaking, but con artists.

7. You can collect sunlight on the surface. Yes, you can. Really.

8. 1kg of payload to LEO is still 30.000$.

[trakkaton]

Factual errors:

1. Renewables have the potential to generate thousands of times more energy than we curently use.

2. No one wants to make hydrogen from fossil fuels. Red herring.

3. Renewables have the great advantage that they are modular, making small, decentral power plants possible, generating the power where you need it, which solves transportation loss.

4. After decades of 100% subsidized fusion research we still don't know whether it'll be ever possible to PLAN a reactor.

[moonus111]

it can provide enough energy to save the economy, the environment, and still have enough left over to provide for the third world, and then more energy. Also, it can become the New version of what America once stood for .... the new "New World"

[infoseeker228]

yeah how is colonising the moon going to save the earth?

[MrIigle]

@infoseeker228 for the energy and stuff

[spungii117]

Yea da moon!