From: gallatinwilson@comcast.net   
      
   "Alex Terrell"  wrote in message   
   news:d81e59c9.0402021405.57a4baad@posting.google.com...   
   > There are reasons why it's advantageous to have a main lunar base at   
   > low latitude, and a water mining base at the poles.   
   >   
   > But how could cargo be transported bewteen the two. Would one option   
   > to be use pipes? A pipe laid a few thousand kilometres along the moons   
   > surface might weigh a thousand tons, but could continually tranport   
   > water, at least during the lunar day.   
   >   
   > During the lunar night, first hydrogen, and then oxygen, could be   
   > piped back to the pole, where they would be combined to produce   
   > electricity.   
   >   
   > Is this feasible? Or does pumping water require too much energy. Is   
   > the moons topogrpahy to varied - the pipe would need to be on almost   
   > level ground.   
      
      
   If you can identify and mark a ground route between your polar water mine   
   and your equatorial base, just truck it in solid form.   
      
   Have several bare chassis four-wheel trailers delivered to your polar base,   
   along with a teleoperated tractor (powered by something.) Melt the water,   
   cast it into a block of ice incorporating the trailer. Wrap each block in a   
   kapton insulating blanket (if traveling by lunar day), hitch up your wagons   
   and head for the equator.   
      
   Jonathan Wilson   
      
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