0 sats \ 2 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 8h \ parent \ on: Martian sand can be used to build in space, Dublin scientists find science
creating/storing/transporting them is much more efficient than transporting full building materials.
Right, it's really small and low density. Maybe it could be synthesized on Mars since there's lots of carbon dioxide.
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20 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln 7h
One approach I would imagine then would be to first transform the CO into CO or methane CH before using CVD to form carbon nanotubes...
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @chaoticalHeavy 5h
methane
That was my thought too, after reading about the manufacturing process.
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