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Rare Earth Frontiers is a work of human geography that serves to demystify the powerful elements that make possible the miniaturization of electronics, green energy and medical technologies, and essential telecommunications and defense systems. Julie Michelle Klinger draws attention to the fact that the rare earths we rely on most are as common as copper or lead, and this means the implications of their extraction are global. Klinger excavates the rich historical origins and ongoing ramifications of the quest to mine rare earths in ever more impossible places. Klinger writes about the devastating damage to lives and the environment caused by the exploitation of rare earths. She demonstrates in human terms how scarcity myths have been conscripted into diverse geopolitical campaigns that use rare earth mining as a pretext to capture spaces that have historically fallen beyond the grasp of centralized power. These include legally and logistically forbidding locations in the Amazon, Greenland, and Afghanistan, and on the Moon. Drawing on ethnographic, archival, and interview data gathered in local languages and offering possible solutions to the problems it documents, this book examines the production of the rare earth frontier as a place, a concept, and a zone of contestation, sacrifice, and transformation.

Lunar mining. --- Rare earth metals --- Political aspects. --- Social aspects. --- Mining, Lunar --- Mining of lunar resources --- Space mining --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals

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Former NASA Astronaut Harrison Schmitt advocates a private, investor-based approach to returning humans to the Moon—to extract Helium 3 for energy production, to use the Moon as a platform for science and manufacturing, and to establish permanent human colonies there in a kind of stepping stone community on the way to deeper space. With governments playing a supporting role—just as they have in the development of modern commercial aeronautics and agricultural production—Schmitt believes that a fundamentally private enterprise is the only type of organization capable of sustaining such an effort and, eventually, even making it pay off.

Lunar bases. --- Lunar mining. --- Space flight to the moon. --- Moon. --- Flight to the moon --- Lunar expeditions --- Lunar flight --- Mining, Lunar --- Mining of lunar resources --- Space mining --- Lunar construction engineering --- Moon bases --- Moon settlements --- Extraterrestrial bases --- Earth (Planet) --- Satellite --- Astronomy. --- Astrophysics. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology. --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics

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The Earth has limited material and energy resources. Further development of the humanity will require going beyond our planet for mining and use of extraterrestrial mineral resources and search of power sources. The exploitation of the natural resources of the Moon is a first natural step on this direction. Lunar materials may contribute to the betterment of conditions of people on Earth but they also may be used to establish permanent settlements on the Moon. This will allow developing new technologies, systems and flight operation techniques to continue space exploration.   In fact, a new branch of human civilization could be established permanently on Moon in the next century. But, meantime, an inventory and proper social assessment of Moon’s prospective energy and material resources is required. This book investigates the possibilities and limitations of various systems supplying manned bases on Moon with energy and other vital resources. The book collects together recent proposals and innovative options and solutions. It is a useful source of condensed information for specialists involved in current and impending Moon-related activities and a good starting point for young researchers.

Astrophysics. --- Electric engineering. --- Lunar mining. --- Moon -- Exploration. --- Planetary science. --- Mechanical Engineering --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Mining Engineering --- Electrical Engineering --- Natural resources. --- Moon. --- National resources --- Natural resources --- Resources, Natural --- Mining, Lunar --- Mining of lunar resources --- Economic aspects --- Earth (Planet) --- Satellite --- Engineering. --- Planetology. --- Space sciences. --- Electric power production. --- Energy Technology. --- Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Sciences. --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Space mining --- Energy Systems. --- Space Sciences (including Extraterrestrial Physics, Space Exploration and Astronautics). --- Planetary sciences --- Planetology --- Astronomical physics --- Astronomy --- Cosmic physics --- Physics --- Energy systems. --- Science and space --- Space research --- Cosmology --- Science