rtg requires Pu239 as a fuel. This is a manmade isotope a byproduct of nuclear weapons production. None is being manufactured any more anywhere in the world. There are only a few kg left. Not even enough for all of ASA's planned missions No fuel
Manned Lunar landers was about 32,400 lbs, or 16.2 short tons. I truly doubt that weight would...
Lander mass irrelevant. What counts is the lander PAYLOAD mass. The Apollo program cost $24,000,000,000 in 1970 dollars. Brought back 841 lb of rocks and dirt. This works out to $1,783,000 per OUNCE to bring material back,
The conveyor belt ...
I was referring to the mass of the belt AND whatever machinery was necessary to set it up robotically, or were you intending people to go and set it up?
relatively pure ice at least 2 meters thick
Ithought That this result was a POSSIBLE interpretation of the data, but I'll let that go for now
120 ft -
What diameter?. I was envisioning about a meter and a half
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There are no fusion power stations. There are no fusion power stations being built. There are no fusion power stations being planned. There are no practical designs for fusion power stations. This one is pure science fiction, and ... in 2020 dollars I suspect the cost to bring an ounce af material back from the moon will be in the order of $5,000,000 an ounce. There isn't ANY material worth that. plus you would have to transport the processing machinery to the moon at great expense adding still further to the cost.
Mars. I don't have any data on the cost of returning anything from Msrs because it hasn't been done. But considering the average flight distance to Mars is about 80 million miles and the cost of returning something from the moon is "astronomical" A Mars base makes about 1/320 the economic sense of a moon base. Also Mars consists of very cold rocks and dirt. Antartica is a better source for these
Opportunity cost.
this subject I'd like to address later. It's complex, and you've made a huge assumption, but if you haven't read Bastiat's What is seen and what is not seen
I suggest you do so. .
I think the problem we have here is that what Gingrich had proposed are private projects with NASA help. So, in the final analysis, you are vigorously protesting people using mostly their own money, to however they do so making a profit, doing something you disdain.
Which requires a lot of research on your part.