https://www.blueorigin.com/news/blue-alchemist-powers-our-lunar-future/
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Blue Origin is famous for its commercial rocket technology, and now a new development in lunar-energy production has highlighted their potential. Blue Alchemist is a Blue Origin process that turns the lunar regolith into material that is manufactured into solar panels. The Blue Alchemist process separates material from the lunar regolith into necessary components for solar panel production and uses the Sun as an energy source.
Blue Origin has created a process called “Blue Alchemist” that uses the lunar regolith to create material that is suitable for manufacturing solar panels. As private companies including SpaceX and Blue Origin take sights and aim at the Moon and elsewhere, this process is extremely promising, and may even reduce the pollution from current solar panel production efforts.
Solar-panel manufacturing requires high-purity silicon, and the Blue Alchemist process meets this requirement. The byproduct of the process is oxygen gas. Amazingly, the Sun provides the energy required to melt the regolith after separation of elements and miners occurs in the process.
The Artemis missions to the Moon and projects aiming at mining the lunar surface make a dependable energy source a requirement. Solar panels manufactured on Earth must be transported to the Moon, which requires fuel and may be in opposition to sustainability initiatives. Reducing pollution, waste and fuel helps to create a clean-energy source that is indeed clean and sustainable. Blue Alchemist enables the scaling of energy demand on the lunar surface that will enable astronauts to meet their growing power demand.
The creation of clean energy from lunar regolith is a boon for space faring sustainability. Making solar panels without caustic and toxic chemicals and without the necessity to transport them offworld is an impressive development. It is clear that governments and private industry are actively working to create bases and settlements on the Moon along with a plethora of manned missions, and reliable clean-energy sources are a requirement. Blue Alchemist is a revolutionary clean-energy process, and it will enable future lunar missions.
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