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by mapt 299 days ago
By far the most credible case for asteroid mining is water & carbon compounds. A little H, O, and C, and you have conventional hydrocarbon propellant + LOX.

I don't know what the actual claim that is being made here is; This seems to redirect ultimately to a lay press release from a state space agency rather than to a scientific paper. There do seem to be a number of competing articles on electrochemical synthesis of ethylene from CO2.

https://www.carboncapturejournal.com/news/artificial-photsyn...

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-50522-7

https://lanzatech.com/lanzatech-produces-ethylene-from-co2-c...

https://techport.nasa.gov/projects/93860

https://news.umich.edu/in-step-toward-solar-fuels-durable-ar...

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/717409