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by xavxav 669 days ago
1. the article explains how many materials could potentially be sourced on the moon and provides potential magnet compositions to address that as well. 2. The moon weighs ~8.1 x 10^19 tons, if we use their iron based magnet design and ship everything from the earth (iron is present on the moon), it would require ~1 million tons aka 10^6 tons or approximately 0% of the weight of the moon. 3. See above.