These companies are making solar cells out of fake Moon dirt

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Can they power human settlements on the Moon?

. The byproducts of that process are metals and other valuable materials that Ignatiev figured you could use to make solar cells.

. Lunar regolith is melted at extremely high temperatures, then shot through with an electrical current to extract iron, silicon, and aluminum. This produces the basic ingredients for making solar cells. Stitch those cells together and you then have a solar panel, and you can hypothetically keep scaling up from there.

But that’s pretty big talk from a company that seemingly has yet to test its technology using real lunar dirt. There just isn’t enough of the stuff on Earth to hand it out to every commercial space company trying to run experiments with regolith. Instead, an entirehas cropped up to feed those experiments. You can even buy the fake lunar dirt online.

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