ooops, better formated data

> >I was using Si in a general term, the entire
> subject can become very involved, thus I will try to
> be short.
> >
> >Very high concentration is important to
> construction material. Used in Lunacrete is one
> example. I have some current finding not ready for
> publication which will be published on,

Hmm, I had not heard that before. Let us know when
you publish your paper.

> >Additionally, if someone like Bill Gates can create
> chips that are 100% better than what we can do now,

So far as I know, neither Bill Gates nor his company
Microsoft has ever "created" a Silicon chip. They
have neither developed nor manufactured any chips so
far as I know.

Microsoft Corporation is best known for their software
products, beginning with MS-DOS. More recently they
have started manufacturing games boxes and other
devices, so far as I know the chips they contain are
purchased.

> well, they have money to burn. The following is

I doubt that finished chips made on the Moon would
achieve terrestrial quality and yield in the lifetimes
of anybody reading this list.

For the forseeable future, quality and yield rates of
finished terrestrial chips will exceed that of
non-terrestrial chips.

It might be possible to make high quality bulk Silicon
crystals in zero G (but not on the Moon).

But it is still a lot of work to turn a crytal into
a finished functioning chip, and that latter part will
always most easily be done on Earth for the forseeable
future.

> >"...Table two on page 12 shows the glass content of
> Lunar samples. This glass content is important in
> the production of other materials. The richness in
> the calcium oxide makes the rock valuable in the
> production of glasses. As can be seen in table two,

Sounds like the glass content is more important than
the Si content.

> the Lunar surface is rich in glass content. Some
> samples taken from short crater rims have glass
> content as high as 92.3 percent(3:383). The Space
> Studies Institute(SSI) has been performing extensive
> research on this finding. They claim that if a
> quartz (rock of chemical composition Si 0 ) veins

Actually it is SiO2

> requirements of a Lunar material. Also, they found
> that if the feldspar is enriched by an additional 36
> percent of SiO to that of table two, it would be
> possible to make the highest performance commercial
> glass fiber that are now known of on Earth..."
> >

Yes, structural materials of this nature will be
viable on the Moon, and could be one of its early
exports, at least to LEO and GEO.

It is orders of magnitude easier to make structural
materials than to make semiconductor chips.