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Is there Free Energy on the Moon?

Posted on Friday, May 12, 2006 (CDT) by Thoth

Roger Kent Pool reports on a conspiracy of silence: I’m not a smart man but I guess I’m smarter than a rocket scientist, either that or there is a deception that has been foisted on the public for decades, one that should make us ask if NASA’s love affair with Mars is misplaced.

It has been more than thirty years since NASA’s manned space program landed men on the Moon. Thirty years is a long time; both science and technology have achieved great milestones during that time, yet for some reason we still do not have any significant fixed assets on the Moon.

During that time, we have spent billions of dollars sending countless satellites and rovers to Mars and have even sent probes out of the solar system, however our achievements on the Moon are conspicuous by their absence. One of the reasons given for NASA channelling its resources into the exploration of Mars is that Mars potentially has water and the Moon does not.

While the moon may not have natural water of its own, it may come as a surprise for people to realize that the moon contains all the vital ingredients required to make our own water. You might ask how I can say that when scientists have never publicly shared this incredible fact, so allow me to explain.

The Moon as we know is made of rock and most of what constitutes rock is in fact oxygen. The Moon has also been bathed by the solar winds for around 3 billion years, saturating its surface in hydrogen. If we burn the hydrogen by combining it with the oxygen, adding a spark, or a platinum catalyst, bang (literally bang), we have water. Incidentally, if the need is for a rocket motor propellant you do not have to even combine the elements.

A scientist would say that the oxygen is bound up in the lunar rock and it takes energy to free it. Fortunately, there is the potential to create energy in abundance on the moon and some simply use the natural environment to do so. There are great advantages on the moon that do not exist on Mars. The absence of atmosphere means that the sunward side of objects are very hot and the shade side of the object is freezing cold. An important job of a spacesuit, beyond providing sufficient pressure to keep the occupant from asphyxiating, is that in contains hundreds of continuously circulating water-filled tubes that are used to balance the temperature. Without this temperature control system the astronaut would both cook on one side and freeze solid on the other. The other advantage is the moon has no appreciable atmosphere. At low pressures water can be made to boil with very little heat.

The New Age of Steam

Moon Surface

When facing the sun, the moon’s surface temperature is about 123°C, which is of course above the boiling point of water. If you need to increase the temperature further you can use a parabolic mirror to achieve any temperature required. The parabolic mirror focuses the sunlight like a magnifying glass to a small point. In the hotspot place a metal container to create that whiz-bang of modern technology: the boiler.

In a contained system of tubes, you can boil water until it becomes steam. The steam builds up pressure and is forced through an electric turbine assembly. It is then fed into a cooling radiator; where it can be continuously reused. Looking to the moon’s natural environment, we know that the moon’s temperature in the shade drops as low as -233°C, this temperature extreme is certainly cold enough to re-condense the steam and make this system very feasible indeed.

Making Free Energy on the Moon

Another way to capitalize on the extreme temperature variations in the lunar environment is to use an array of thermocouples. A thermocouple is a simple device consisting of two types of metal like zinc and copper that have been fused together. By attaching a wire to the copper side and another wire to the zinc side one can then hook the two wire to an electrical device like a light bulb By placing one side of the metal plate, say the copper side, in the sun and the other, the zinc side, in the shade, the temperature difference causes an electric current to flow through wires attached to each of the metals and if the temperature difference is great enough the bulb will glow. This is the same device used on your older gas stoves, gas water heaters or gas furnaces. When you light the pilot light you hold the button down for a few seconds it allows the little copper thing held in the flame (the thermocouple) to heat up enough to supply enough current to an electromagnet coil thereby holding the gas valve open. If you blow out the pilot light the thermocouple cools, the current stops flowing and the gas valve snaps closed. It is an important safety device.

The following idea is perhaps the easiest and is very interesting to consider. Scientists know that by moving a long piece of wire through a magnetic field, an electric current is generated. A generator is simply a long copper wire moved through a magnetic field. A motor is the reverse then current flows through a wire it produce a magnetic field that turns an armature. By coiling the wire the effect is magnified. The Earth generates its own magnet field and the moon moves through that magnetic field as it revolves around the Earth. So potentially we have an environment, which is conducive to using the forces of nature to create electricity. One of the shuttle missions proved the viability of this theory by trailing a long wire behind. As the shuttle orbited the earth cutting through the magnetic lines of force it was able to generate a significant amount of electrical power, that is, until the wire broke creating a menacing space junk hazard. This may work if earth’s magnetic field is strong enough on the moon and if the moon is moving fast enough through it to produce enough power. That seems like a question a rocket scientist or an engineer could answer.

There are several other methods of creating electricity on the moon including using a compact nuclear reactor or solar cells; the only consideration with using solar cells would be protecting the mirrors from micrometeorites, which is not an insurmountable obstacle.

Storing the Energy

Once energy has been generated we need to be able to store it. Again, the moon is able to supply resources that make this possible as it has a nearly perfect vacuum. By simply placing a series of metal plates next to one another and alternating which side of the electrical circuit is attached, positive or negative, you create a capacitor, which can be used to store power in the same way that a battery does. The Ark of the Covenant is an identical device and most electronic devices employ capacitors. Those funny canisters you see hanging of the power poles are essentially capacitors. They are used to soak up power spikes and even out the power.

Science has also become very adept at creating plasma and manipulating plasma. Plasma is an energetic state of matter, rather like a gas where the atoms have been stripped of their electrons. (Atoms heated to extreme temperatures form plasma.) Removing the electrons gives the atoms a charge and the plasma streams can then be channelled any way we want.

A water production machine involves using a laser to superheat the Moon rock, creating plasma. It is then possible to separate the silicon from the oxygen plasma in the moon rock using electric fields. Hydrogen, having a positive charge without being in a plasma state is even easier to separate. At the moment this technology remains undeveloped, but it seems reasonable to wonder why that is. It’s true that this method requires energy itself, but energy as we’ve demonstrated is cheap and freely available on the Moon.

The Moon is our closest neighbour and therefore far more accessible than Mars. It is clearly cheaper and safer to support both manned and robotic missions to the Moon. In addition there are no delays in communication between the Moon and Earth as there are between Mars and Earth. Establishing a base on the Moon would allow us to test our habitation of extreme environments in a considerably safer and cheaper way than going to Mars would. If we can live on the Moon, then we can live anywhere.

Creating a water-manufacturing base on the moon certainly makes sense and as we’ve seen is easily achievable if NASA directs sufficient resources into it. However, for some strange reason, it has rejected the moon in favour of the more distant Mars for decades.

It seems suspicious that we scrapped our Saturn V fleet that was capable of landing on the moon in favour of a more expensive (although reusable) space shuttle that is unable to make it to the Moon. If an organization such as the UN had set up a system there to manage mineral rights, big business would have capitalized on the opportunities on the moon very quickly indeed and our moon base would soon have become a reality, funded by both private and government funds.

The fact is we deserve answers from our rocket scientists and our politicians regarding their failure, or more probably unwillingness, to develop the Moon’s potential. What is the big secret? What is the problem? If I can figure out how to create water and energy using the moon’s natural resources, they can too. So why haven’t they?

Now that the race to get back to the moon is finally on, even China has joined the game. Although they have never openly admitted it, scientists know that the Moon can supply all our space borne water and energy requirements. By finally developing and utilizing the potential on our own doorstep, we can create a foundation that will benefit humanity for the next millennia, the only question is, why did we wait so long?

This article was written by Roger Kent Pool.

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