Chinese Scientists Discover How To Create Oxygen, Water And Fuel On The Moon
In the future, people may go to the moon and stay there for a long time
For astronauts to be able to stay there for the duration of their mission, they must first figure out how to make oxygen, water, and fuel from what is already there, since they can’t get these things from Earth.
Now, a group of Chinese astronomers from Nanjing University have found a way to do this, which will make it easier for people to explore space and build a permanent base.
After looking at the lunar soil that the Chinese spacecraft Chang’e 5 brought back from the moon, these researchers found iron- and titanium-rich materials that could be used as catalysts to make oxygen and fuel from the CO2 and solar radiation that future astronauts will breathe out.
Scientists Yingfang Yao and Zhigang Zou are in charge of the group. They think that a kind of “alien photosynthesis” could help people explore the Moon and other planets in the Solar System.
This would be possible because, as they explain, the oxygen we breathe comes from plants and other photosynthetic organisms. They make oxygen while turning carbon dioxide (CO2) and sunlight into energy-rich sugars.
With the help of solar radiation, the system would use the lunar soil to electrolyze water, which could be taken from the Moon itself, and dehydrate the gases that astronauts breathe out to make oxygen and hydrogen. All of this can be done without using energy from outside, making an extraterrestrial life support system that uses “zero energy.”
In fact, the carbon dioxide that people who live on the Moon in the future will give off can be stored and mixed with the hydrogen through a process called “hydrogenation,” which is sped up by the lunar soil.
Hydrocarbons like methane, which could be used as fuel, would be made. Yao said, “We use local resources to reduce the weight of the rocket, and our plan shows how an extraterrestrial living environment could be sustainable and affordable.”
The results of this work have been published in the scientific journal Joule, and the team is already looking for a chance to test this system in space, probably during China’s future manned lunar missions.
Yao also said that his team is already trying out different ways to improve the design of catalysts. For example, they are melting lunar soil to make a “high-entropy nanostructured material.”
A type of “alien photosynthesis” that would make it easier for people to explore the Moon. In the near future, the industry of manned space flight will grow quickly. We are now in the “Age of Space,” which is similar to the “Age of Sail” in the 17th century, when hundreds of ships took to the sea.
But if we want to do a large-scale exploration of worlds other than our own, we will have to think of ways to reduce the payload, which means we will have to use as few supplies from Earth as possible and instead use resources from other worlds.
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Joe
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Chineese scientists learned how to make the ball in a ballpoint pen in 2018….before that they imported the Balls from France and South Korea. I do not think they have a clue about anything in Space!!!
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Joseph Olson
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Chinese robot Chang’e 5 returned from the Moon on Dec 17, 2020 with 2 kilograms of lunar dust and rocks. Elon Musk has said his Space X Starship will require eight 1200 ton fuel supply tanks, prepositioned to make a single lunar landing. Too bad NASA “lost” all that great 1969 technology
https://principia-scientific.com/Perplexing-Apollo-questions-for-NASA
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aaron
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if that can be done on the moon, why not here
or maybe it already is being used – free energy
have we been scammed into believing we need ‘fossil fuels’ or other methods for energy?
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Howdy
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Before anything is classed as free, every bit of energy required to enable the end product to exist without any consumption of any kind must be balanced out. The CO2 requires a living entity Aaron. How does that qualify as free?
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TBrew
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I never once thought that they are shipping tanks of oxygen or water to the space station. Google no longer results by relevance and I gave up on finding links to past statements.. But we have had the ability to change atomic ratios (of actual elements) in sealed tubes, simply with the right combination of frequencies. I can not find the experiment name. but surely psi is the place where others may know to what I refer and may have the documentarians. I have not only read these experiments (tesla and einstein actually cooperated with demonstrating this on several occasions) but have seen them reproduced (at Chico State University physical sciences- Hardly MIT and a 100 year old discovery). VERY simple. Three solenoids, each composing of a physical magnet as its piston (like a speaker, except the magnet moves in the fixed coil instead of reverse) and these are set up in an XYZ axis of specified relation, and each is fed a different frequency, converging on the test medium. The oxygen in the water sample becomes hydrogen, making it nearly pure H rather than water. The environment dictates the particle. the protons and electrons rearrange. They remain in that form when the frequency generators are turned off. this can be analized before and after. I have always had an extremely strong suspicion that the “innogen” product works this way. Surely someone on here has seen it too and can recall the experiments name.
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Howdy
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Hi TBrew, after trying several search engines, anything similar to this patent?
https://patents.google.com/patent/DE4238952A1/en
Search engines are rubbish now, with most results of a search on “three frequency driven coils” simply being glorified electrolysis, and repeating.
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Charles Higley
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“The oxygen in the water sample becomes hydrogen, making it nearly pure H rather than water. ”
Sorry, but this is absolutely impossible without blowing the entire site to smithereens. Not workable in spades. Basically a fusion reactor that cannot happen under those conditions. If it worked, we would have truly cheap energy in hordes.
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Howdy
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“oxygen and fuel from the CO2 and solar radiation that future astronauts will breathe out.”
Astronauts will breathe out solar radiation? I know, It sucks.
“We are now in the “Age of Space,”
Yes, between the ears I think. Seriously, It is the age of death that has shrouded us, and daydreaming will not provide a remedy to that.
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Charles Higley
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Yes, it uses energy from outside, solar energy. The system would not be as simple as implied as it would require machinery to collect and feed lunar material, and probably not just any lunar material, into a processing plant. The catalyst system would have to be in closed chambers to collect the resulting gases and they would have to be separated to be useful. Then, there is the problem that the solar panels involved would spend half their time in shadow. Yeah, not all that simple. There are likely more issues as the catalysts are not made yet before being used.
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