Patent Application
20230108669
The present invention pertains to utilization of the moon.
The surface of the moon has an atmosphere which is less than approximately 100 trillionth the density of the earth's atmosphere over the sea surface, and is clearly a brutal part of space, constantly exposed to collisions with micrometeors, ultraviolet, X rays, and other forms of cosmic rays.
Recently Elon Musk has been planning private moon travel, but the problem of how to live on the moon has not yet been solved. Additionally, there is no good long term solution for over population or the continued generation of waste materials on the earth including such things as trash, hazardous materials, and radioactive waste (i.e., including radioactive soil and/or water, and spent fuel of nuclear power plants).
It has been published that the JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) satellite Kagura discovered the presence of a naturally formed underground cave 3 on the moon 1, having a vertical hole 2 with a diameter and depth of several tens of meters, and a horizontal hole of several tens of kilometers, as shown in
(1) The published literature does not describe any practical proposals for how specifically to utilize the moon.
(2) There is no published literature regarding concrete provision of dwellings, hospitals, factories, industrial and power plants, towns, cities, trash and waste material storage or the like on the moon.
(3) There is no published literature regarding activities performed on the moon which cannot be performed on earth.
(4) The object of the present invention is to provide for utilization of the moon, such as by supplying energy from the moon to the earth.
The moon is not suited as a living environment due to large quantities of radiation, cosmic rays, ultraviolet, and falling meteors 8. The present invention was undertaken in light of these circumstances and has the object of providing waste storage and a system for building dwellings, shopping areas, government offices, towns, factories, industrial and power plants, hospitals and the like on the moon, and contributing to the earth.
There are four types of hole on the moon: holes known as craters, various horizontal holes, various vertical holes, and horizontal holes with vertical holes; of these four types, a horizontal hole with a vertical hole would be used, such that an elevator and stairway are erected facing the bottom surface of the horizontal hole in the vertical hole portion, and a blocking panel is placed at the opening portion of the vertical hole at the top of the elevator and stairway so that cosmic rays, ultraviolet, and the like cannot penetrate; furthermore penetration of the thin ceiling portion of the horizontal hole can be prevented by solar panels or the like.
By utilizing horizontal hole cavities on the moon, dwellings, shopping areas, factories, industrial and power plants, hospitals, government agencies, towns, or unmanned robot devices can be provided in a horizontal hole where meteors, cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, and the like cannot directly impinge, and by using vertical holes, elevators and stairways can be erected to facilitate movement between the moon's surface and underground, while said elevators and stairways can be used as conduits for oxygen produced by oxygen-producing photosynthesis devices on the moon's surface and carbon dioxide produced by humans in the cavity, whereby a protective body is erected at the top of elevators and stairways so that meteors, cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, and the like do not penetrate from the opening portion of the vertical hole, with electrical generating elements using sunlight, earthlight, temperature differentials and the like provided on the roof portion of the horizontal hole as a protective body against meteors, cosmic rays, ultraviolet radiation, and the like.
The horizontal hole cavities are also utilized to enclose and store trash such as all waste materials on the earth including such things as waste or trash, hazardous materials, and radioactive waste as well as all waste materials on the moon including such things as waste or trash, hazardous materials, and radioactive waste. The radioactive waste includes spent fuel, radioactive soil, radioactive liquid, and radioactive material produced or caused by nuclear power plants during normal operations and during accident conditions.
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Due to the low gravity and virtual absence of atmosphere on the moon, chemical synthesis and medical treatment methods and the like not possible on earth can be performed in factories 6 or hospitals on the moon, and therefore the effect of the present invention is tremendous.
Of course, the protective panels 9 and 10 are included in the present invention even if not disposed.
11 is an entrance to a stairway. Stairway 4 may be a spiral stairway or half-turn stairway; 12 is an elevator external entrance/exit, 13 is an elevator car, and 14 is an elevator cavity internal entrance/exit.
The case in which a panel is used as a solar and earthlight panel only or as a cosmic ray and the like protection panel only, rather than one panel serving as both the solar panel and the cosmic ray, etc. protection panel, is also included in the present invention.
Since temperature differentials are severe on the moon, generating systems on the moon which utilize temperature differentials, and the systems for same, are also included in the present invention.
Electrical power obtained by generation using sunlight or earthlight, or by temperature differentials, can be used not only on the moon, but also can be transmitted to the earth by a means such as microwaves to be used as a power source for earth; this is also included in the invention.
Constituent parts used on the moon in the present invention make use of an irradiated part exposed to cosmic rays, radiation, and the like, and a non-irradiated part not exposed to radiation or the like, and include towns and the like 6 and hospitals and the like 7 in the non-irradiated part.
Utilizing a moon structure comprising a naturally present horizontal hole cavity 3 underground on moon 1, and a naturally present vertical hole 2 penetrating the horizontal hole 3 and moon surface la, infrastructures 6, 7 used by humans are erected in the horizontal hole cavity 3, such that the moon can be further utilized by these items. Movement portions such as stairways or elevators are also placed in a vertical hole connected to a horizontal hole so that movement between the surface and underground portions can be easily accomplished when utilizing the moon's surface. The simplest structure for the movement portion may be made by creating stair step panels for the stairway 4 in
A factory 6 or hospital 7 erected in the aforementioned horizontal hole can take advantage of the moon's ⅙th earth gravity to perform manufacturing, treatment of patient feet or lower backs, various rehabilitation, or chemotherapy which cannot be accomplished on earth.
Another feature is the provision of energy producing means utilizing impinging light or temperature differentials at a position above parts 6 or 7 where humans can live, disposed in a vertical hole naturally formed in moon 1, or at other desired positions.
In a third embodiment of the invention, the
In a fourth embodiment of the invention, the temperature differential on the moon's surface is used as described above and a temperature differential electric generating device (not shown) is disposed at a position where incident light such as sunlight impinges, and at a position where incident light such as sunlight does not impinge.
In a fifth embodiment of the invention, the moon's surface shape, such as the perimeter surface of a crater, is utilized, with both a high temperature portion which receives sunlight and a low temperature portion which does not receive sunlight.
In a sixth embodiment of the invention, incident light energy producing means or temperature differential energy producing means are disposed at a position where earthlight or sunlight is incident, and at a position where earthlight or sunlight is not incident (not shown).
In a seventh embodiment of the invention, experiments with small organisms, microorganisms, viruses and the like present on earth are conducted in a hospital or research lab 7 in an underground cavity.
In an eighth embodiment of the invention, solar panels or temperature differential panels shown in
With the present invention, dwellings, towns, factories, industrial and power plants, and hospitals can be built without fear of cosmic rays or ultraviolet, which was previously impossible, so that humanity can live securely on the moon. Problems of overpopulation on earth can also be solved by moving to the moon. Additionally, trash, waste, and hazardous materials generated on the earth can be stored under the surface of the moon thereby providing health advantages.
Additionally, health advantages are conferred by the ability to cure illnesses uncurable on earth. Research can be done on chemical reactions which cannot be performed on earth. New production and industries can also be started as a result.
There are also enormous effects from the present invention such as supplying energy to the earth and supplementing the earth's energy shortages, without that energy polluting the earth environment.
A concrete science-based invention such as the present application is novel and cannot be easily attained by a person of ordinary skill in the art, and the effects rendered by the inventions of the Claims cannot be anticipated by a person of ordinary skill in the art.
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As explained in detail in “Means for Resolving Problems” above. I.e.,
Dwellings, towns, farmland, ponds, factories, industrial and power plants, government agencies, hospitals, and the like are provided in horizontal holes. As shown in
I.e., cavity portions, being non-incident portions (portions not [receiving] direct light), are considered dwelling spaces.
This enables people to live securely without exposure to radiation or the like. Because movement portions such as stairways or elevators are disposed in vertical holes connected to horizontal holes, movement between the surface and underground can be easily accomplished when performing activities on the moon's surface.
Roads may also be provided and used for movement. Other aspects are described in detail in “Means for Solving Problems.” Oxygen for human habitation is supplied to a pipe shaped cavity 3 through a vertical hole 2 by providing a hothouse-shaped box on the moon's surface, into which plants are introduced and oxygen is produced by photosynthesis using sunlight, earthlight, or cosmic energy. Carbon dioxide produced by humans in the cavity 3 is fed by a pipe to that hothouse on the moon's surface through a vertical hole 2, and oxygen from photosynthesis by the plants therein is supplied by pipe through a vertical hole to the cavity 3 where humans are present.
Water will either be discovered by exploration of the moon, or produced by combining hydrogen and oxygen. Even if this cannot be done, an unmanned arrangement can be made of everything installed in cavity 6, with work performed by robots, and electrical power for same coming from the aforementioned lunar energy generating devices. The above is known art and is therefore not illustrated.
In addition, the present invention includes the provision of a takeoff/landing site utilizing vertical hole 2 on the moon for transport vehicles (e.g., rocket driven space ships, airplane-type shuttles, and the like). This enables humans disembarking from a transport vehicle on the moon to reach the horizontal hole containing a residential area without being exposed to the degraded environment of the moon's surface. In addition, a vertical hole can be even more effectively utilized by sealing off the moon surface part of the vertical hole where a landing/launching site is placed using the aforementioned solar panel or cosmic ray protection panel.
Transport vehicles may also be used to transport energy. Included as energy is the transport to the earth of energy in the form of solid hydrogen fuel for electrical power.
Other aspects of the present invention are described in detail in “Means for Solving Problems,” Things which cannot be done on earth can be done on the moon, the moon can be effectively used, and industrial applications such as providing energy from the moon to the earth are extensive.
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| 62995120 | Jan 2020 | US |
| Number | Date | Country | |
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| Parent | 17147712 | Jan 2021 | US |
| Child | 17977192 | US |
