Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets
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Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets is a book by John S. Lewis which discusses the development of interplanetary space within our solar system.
Lewis makes a prediction that the abundant natural resources of the solar system, including effectively-limitless solar energy, could support a vast civilization of 1016 people. He argues that shortage of resources is "...an illusion born of ignorance."
Lewis calculated the value of M-type asteroid 3554 Amun at US$20 trillion: US$8 trillion worth of iron and nickel, US$6 trillion worth of cobalt, and US$6 trillion in platinum-group metals.[1] Since the book was published, the value of platinum, for example, has tripled.[2]
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[edit] Bibliography
- Mining the Sky: Untold Riches from the Asteroids, Comets, and Planets by John S. Lewis; Perseus Publishing; (September 1997); ISBN 0-201-32819-4
[edit] See also
- The Millennial Project by space advocate Marshall Savage
- The Case for Mars: The Plan to Settle the Red Planet and Why We Must by space advocate Robert Zubrin
- The High Frontier: Human Colonies in Space by Gerard O'Neill
- Space advocacy
- Space technology
- Space colonization
- Solar power satellite
- Asteroid mining
- Space elevator
[edit] Notes
- ^ "Space Settlements - spreading life throughout the solar system". NASA Advanced Supercomputer (NAS) Division. http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Basics/wwwwh.htm. Retrieved 2009-05-12.[dead link]
- ^ "London Platinum and Palladium Market". The London Platinum and Palladium Market. http://www.lppm.org.uk. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
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