Policy model for space economy infrastructure

Komerath, Narayanan; Nally, James; Tang, Elizabeth Zilin

doi:10.1016/j.actaastro.2006.12.033

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“…Linnaeus ECO-TECH ´14, Kalmar, Sweden November [24][25][26]2014 The cosmic supply of energy to mankind is in this work assumed to not yet be unlimited. The technological development is hence assumed to not yet have reached the level of utilizing energy without limitations.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…where commodity = A certain bad residual from the production of a certain commodity at a certain planet, asteroid and/or comet (7) commodity = R The regular planetary and/or space-platform based production goods of all the certain commodities (8) commodity = All the related different planetary and/or space-platform based residual fraction bads produced (9) Linnaeus ECO-TECH ´14, Kalmar, Sweden November [24][25][26]2014 within a suitable production facility or an administrative unit in space, for example, a production line on a certain planet, a space-platform or an asteroid, on an annual or other time limit basis.…”

Section: Metal and Mineral Commoditiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Managers on all levels will namely put pressure on their Linnaeus ECO-TECH ´14, Kalmar, Sweden November [24][25][26]2014 colleagues that are responsible for the technological development to improve the efficiency of the current production apparatus. Otherwise the fictive but useful shadow costs will become too substantial when the proposed equality principle is applied in this context.…”

Section: Consequences Of the Space-economy Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Linnaeus ECO-TECH ´14, Kalmar, Sweden November [24][25][26]2014 within the solar system on an annual basis. commodity Ris multiplied with to obtain the shadow cost to additionally allocate to USA's government budget in proportion to USA's budget for exploitation of natural resources within the solar system in relation to the total global budget for exploitation of natural resources within the solar system.…”

Section: Metal and Mineral Commoditiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Studies of similar kind features, for example, an economic simulation model to bring down costs for a global organization focused on space infrastructure and economic expansion in order to plan, coordinate, fund and implement infrastructure construction [26]. However, no model seems to have been developed to by a single key factor simultaneously manage and optimize the economy, the technology and the environmental conditions of outer space being the main feature of this study.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Optimisation of the resource economy of metals, minerals and energy in an interplanetary perspective

Stenis

Hogland

2017

Eco-Tech

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Valuable metals and minerals are becoming ever scarcer on Earth. The global population is steadily increasing. Thus, new sources of natural resources in space are now needed as an alternative to digging deeper into Earth. Therefore, a cost structure is proposed for generally improving the resource economy of metal and mineral commodities and energy resources based on the optimisation of residuals as regards resource exploitation on primarily an interplanetary scale. The introduced methodology involves business administration and economics theory and employs the previously introduced equality principle and the Efficient Use of Resources for Optimal Production Economy (EUROPE) model. The suggested theory is applicable in the solar system and the space-platform context. A case study shows how to in practice apply the findings on the USA exploiting natural and energy resources on asteroids and the red planet Mars. It is concluded that the presented methodology is useful for increasing the cost-effectiveness of mainly the occurring residuals when exploiting natural and energy resources and commodities outside of our own planet in space. Also, the equity of the distribution of such facilities is improved on all scales. The developed methods are suitable information support tools for decision-making in the management of natural resources, with emphasis on the economy of residuals on the interplanetary level as well as generally being applicable on ore mining. A proposed key figure enables management to immediately obtain an overall comprehension of the economic, technological and environmental performance of their interplanetary endeavours that hence continuously can be reviewed, monitored and evaluated.

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Section: Consequences Of the Space-economy Theorymentioning

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Section: Metal and Mineral Commoditiesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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