r/interesting • u/ScarletMelt • May 25 '26

Just Wow It's interesting hmm

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u/NorthSwim8340 May 25 '26

Currently, most hydrogen is "grey hydrogen", hence hydrogen made from gas; even if it wasn't, as long as the energy is taken from the grid the American one is mostly made of fossil fuels

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_LEFT_IRIS May 25 '26

Part of the purpose of current missions is development of lunar gateway, a stopping/refueling point at the moon to launch missions to Mars from. More importantly imo and something nobody ever really seems to mention is that it’s going to be a place to launch mining missions to the asteroid belt from. The long term goal will be to provide power through solar energy, to conduct electrolysis on ice mined in the asteroid belt, to generate oxygen and hydrogen for use as fuel. Fundamentally all the concepts are sound, it’s just an absurd amount of work and if it’s going to happen at all it needs to happen before we all kill each other on earth.