Saturday, April 13, 2013

Lunar Building Extruder

Selenian Boondocks

Interesting idea.  You can build structures while accumulating gases at the same time.

It would work by vacuum depositing lunar metals obtrained from the regolith that would eventually form a tube.  Extend the tube and it makes an ever increasing volume of enclosed space.

The construction technique he's referring to is slip forms, seen in the video below:




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