There’s Something Very Weird About Blue Origin’s Device That Generates Electricity From Moon Dust

Generating electricity on the Moon comes with inherent challenges.

For one, solar energy can only be relied upon during the two-Earth-weeks-long lunar daytime, not the equally long night. A separate idea being explored is using nuclear reactors to generate power, which comes with its own engineering challenges, given the extreme conditions — cooling such a power station, for instance, given the absence of an atmosphere.

Now, Amazon cofounder Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin claims to have come up with an entirely different solution with the help of a small startup called Istari Digital — and a heaping dose of AI, of course.

The space firm recently showed off a device at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent 2025 conference in Las Vegas called TEAREX, or Thermal Energy Advanced Regolith Extraction. T