Oxygen from Regolith

[Thalchar]

Just saying:

https://www.1-act.com/heat-pipe-solar-receiver-for-oxygen-production-of-lunar-regolith/

[crypticorb]

On 9/14/2018 at 5:18 AM, Thalchar said:

Just saying:

https://www.1-act.com/heat-pipe-solar-receiver-for-oxygen-production-of-lunar-regolith/

Rather than having me read a 20-page article, why don't you summarize and make your point? I'd rather test/consider a theory with game mechanics while playing ONI, and not spend 1/2hr reading an essay.

[goatt]

@crypticorb lmao+1

[StarSquid]

On 9/25/2018 at 1:32 PM, crypticorb said:

Rather than having me read a 20-page article, why don't you summarize and make your point? I'd rather test/consider a theory with game mechanics while playing ONI, and not spend 1/2hr reading an essay.

I can summarize the article's proposed device for you:

First, it concentrates solar heat in a liquid sodium medium, then it uses that heat to react hydrogen gas with regolith, producing clean water.

 

In game I'd split this into two devices, a solar receiver and a regolith reducer. The solar receiver would take in liquid coolant and output significantly heated coolant, with no duplicant work required. The regolith reducer would take heated (600-1050 degrees) hydrogen and regolith, producing steam and sand. Ideally this would also have a radiator panel, effectively a reversed solar receiver, so you could get out water with not net input of heat to the base.