In other supply-chain news Brooks Hays at UPI offers a press-release on a new disinfectant. In fact it is an old disinfectant - Hydrogen Peroxide - but, this time, they don't have to make it elsewhere and ship it to the processing-plant. They just use gold and palladium as a catalyst, making sufficient peroxide to disinfect the water right there.
Once they've killed the germs, I suppose they're left with some peroxide and whatever it's reacted with. But they don't have chlorine. Thus freeing up our chlorine stores for other uses - which is nice, because I hear we're short on that as, indeed, are asteroids (read: Venus).
Mars, by the way, won't need this on account their ice is locked up in chlorine salts already. I dunno about our Moon.
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