The use of Bioplastic and Desktop Manufacturing will allow our Moon base to become self sufficient in spare parts at a relatively early stage.
Bioplastics are plastics made from renewable biomass sources, such as vegetable starch or microbes, rather than petroleum as traditional plastics are made from. Obviously we don’t expect to find petroleum on the [...]
I thought I would give you some links to a couple of very interesting sites relating to my post on Desktop Manufacturing.
The first is Fab @ Home which seeks to make a low cost freeform fabrication systems.
The second is RepRap which is making a fabricator that can make all the parts needed to make [...]
Desktop Manufacturing is the logical development of rapid prototyping technology and provides the ideal solution to one of the key problems of any Moon Base, the storage of spare parts.
Any Moon Base is going to need a lot of machinery to run it. Machinery that is essential to the health and well being of [...]