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I just found out about this and its amazing.
ALICE is a rocket fuel that uses aluminium nano-powder and water (in the form of Ice, to keep the mixture stable). The Aluminum reacts with the oxygen in the water like any other themite reaction, and the hydrogen shoots out at high velocity, increasing the exhaust velocity.
Not just that, because all it is just Aluminum and water, it could easily be be made at say, the Moon, because those two things aren't too difficult to get on the Moon, and Ice isn't too hard to store, not much harder than Cryogenic liquids like liquid Hydrogen and Oxygen. This is a solid rocket fuel, so it can't be turned off, unfortunately.
I could see this being used in kick-stages for Lunar Orbital cannon cargo, to finish orbit.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALICE_(propellant)
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Can parrafin be manufactured on the Moon? You need Petroleum to manufacture Parrafin right? They could probably use another wax as an alternative.
Maybe they could throttle and turn of ALICE, if they seperated the Aluminum and Water in the a Hybrid rocket configuration. Althought this might be less efficient because of the lack of surface area.