[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: [Artemis] Cyanobacteria can process lunar soil

[Russell Wallace]

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Bryan Bishop <kanzure at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 15 March 2008, Russell Wallace wrote:
>  > Er, maybe you're thinking of respiration? Photosynthesis doesn't
>  > consume oxygen, it produces it.
>
>  Photosynthesis requires carbon dioxide, which includes oxygen.

And water, which also includes it; but you said "oxidant", which
normally implies that the oxygen isn't chemically bound. But yes,
there's plenty of oxygen in combined form in lunar soil. Carbon's
scarce, and hydrogen scarcer still, though there are traces of both.