20 Billion Tonnes of Lunar Regolith on One Plateau

In this video, I propose turning Mons Mouton, a massive 7,850 km² plateau near the lunar South Pole, into a commercial powerhouse for lunar startups.

By shallow mining just 1% of the plateau to 100 m depth, we could liberate 12–22 billion tonnes of regolith feedstock, enough aluminium, oxygen, argon, and construction material to bootstrap roads, tunnels, solar farms, foundries, rail networks, and more.

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00:00 Intro
00:30 Mons Mouton Shallow Mining Concept
02:29 Shallow Mining Advantages
03:47 Sandvik Mining Equipment
06:06 Tunnelling Sequence
07:42 Tunnel Pressurisation: Why Argon is Better than Nitrogen
08:35 Argon Extraction on the Moon
11:03 Tunnel Sections
11:55 Powering the Tunnels: High-Voltage Direct Current Power Grid
13:42 Tunnel Segment (10m x 5m diameter): Bill of Materials
14:51 Final Thoughts
15:49 Outro

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