MORE TRANSITIONS

Time to change pace again.

Tuesday after the Memorial Day Holiday I will start a new line of daily spots.

These spots will cover various items in the settlement of the Moon by human kind.
I and You can discuss various reasons why we should or should not settle the Moon. Enviromental, Economic and Political reasons are fair game as long as all comments are civil.

If you are a member of a Rocketry Club I would like to talk to you as well as members of Astronomy Clubs, we can even set up a schedule for your meetings and activities here, if you want to.

Tuesday, I will transfer all 12 of the Lavatube Questions to it’s own Blog and open up the space for what is coming.

Craig

TRANSITIONS, AGAIN

We will be transitioning again to a new subject. In this case it will be Questions about Lava Tubes on the Moon and their use in the settlement of the Moon.

All of the 15 questions about settling the Moon will be transfered to a seperate Blog of that subject for quick reference and retrievablity.

The new blog is www.moonsettlements.blogspot.com for the 15 questions on settling the Moon.

Craig

WALTER M. SCHIRRA

It was announced thursday night that Wally Schirra, one of the original Mercury Astronauts had died in San Diego, California. He was the only mercury Astronaut to participate in the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo programs.

It was stated in the newspapers today that he had a Heart Attack at 84 years of age.

The only surviving Mercury Astronauts are John Glenn and Scott Carpenter.

So long Wally, we will miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MASS DRIVERS REVISITED

MASS DRIVERS.

If you remember, earlier in this series of posts in the "What If We" portion I suggested that we might build a Mass Driver in the mountains of the Western United States to throw hard cargo into orbit using a Booster Rocket at the appogee of the orbit to match a satellite already in orbit. At the time I did not suggest how we might power that Mass Driver so that there was the Energy to do the job of putting the cargo into orbit.

There are several ways to do it, Nuclear, Solar, Hyrocarbon, Hydro Power and Wind Power. How ever I would suggest that Wind Power Generators built in the valleys between mountains should be used to generate the power to do the job. Launches would probably be one a week unless something important came up and the energy converted from Kenitic (blowing wind) could be stored in a large bank of Batteries or Capacitors (Potential Energy) until needed.

Any thoughts?

TRANSITIONS

On April 26, I will start posting 15 questions on Settling the Moon, at one question a day.

The information in the 20 questions on Lunar resources will still be available at www.lunarresources.blogspot.com.

Enjoy!!!!

ENERGY CONCERNS

As the concern for energy availability continues to grow and the prices continue to climb we can do something to help ease the problem. We can cut back some more on our driving, or we can buy an Electric Golf Cart for all of the short shopping runs that we make daily and then recharge the carts when the are not in use. This soulition raises another concern, Where do we get the extra electricity to recharge the Carts without causing as much damage to our already meager energy supplies.

Well;
One answer is to build more Wind Generators.
A second answer is to build more Solar generation plants.
A third answer is more Nuclear Power Plants.
A fourth answer is to build Wave Generators along the coast to capture the energy of waves.
A fifth answer is Solar systems in orbit to collect energy and beam it to Planetary Sites for distribution to users.
A sixth answer is to build a combination of these generating plants.

But if we don't do something we will be without the nice things that we have now. When that happens, you will be walking, or riding a bicycle, or riding a horse, or who knows what.

One of the reasons for going back to the Moon is to harvest the Helium isotopes there to generate Power.

All we have to do is get the Government out of the way and the people involved in the work that needs to be done.

FIRE SAFETY ON THE MOON

This past weekend I asked a group of Peoria Fire Fighters to visit this site and comment on how to safe guard against Fire in a Moon Settlement.

I am looking forward to their comments and the approach to the problem by professional Fire Fighters.