Cooling Towers on the Moon?

With the landing of the Atlantis last week, the US space shuttle program has now ended. There has been much discussion and conjecture about how America will get supplies to the International Space Station now that the shuttles are all shuttered. A piece on NPR last week suggested that private companies will take on the shipping duties, with one firm – SpaceX – claiming to be able to send up material on their rockets for as “little” as $2,000 - $3,000 per pound.

These levels of “shipping costs” bring one of the key advantages of EnduroSolv solid water treatment products into sharp focus. Can you imagine shipping traditional liquid water treatment chemicals to treat cooling towers or boilers, to a future colony on the moon? Based on the SpaceX shipping price, one 55-gallon drum of liquids would cost $1,500,000 to ship to the moon! Compare that to “only” $132,000 to ship a case of EnduroSolv solids. Farfetched, I know – but it does make you stop and think, doesn’t it?

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