[minMars] Interesting in-situ manufacturing technology

[Wilfried Hofstetter]

Thanks, Alessandro, this is very interesting. Polymers should actually be
relatively easy to produce on the surface of Mars using hydrogen from Mars
surface water as well as carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. I'll try to
follow up on this during our next telecon.

-Wilfried



On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Alessandro Golkar <golkar at mit.edu> wrote:

> The attached paper reports soil composition for some samples of martian
> regolith. RepRap seems to work with polycaprolactone (polymeric chains of
> methylene, CH2). Hope it is useful to foster further discussion.
>
> Regards,
> Alessandro
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Wilfried Hofstetter <
> wilfried.hofstetter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Found an interesting article about an open source project with the goal
>> of building a self-replicating 3D-printer:
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RepRap_Project
>>
>> http://reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome
>> This would be of particular interest if one could use Martian regolith for
>> printing. Does anyone know about the adhesive properties of Martian
>> regolith?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> -Wilfried
>>
>
>
>
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