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12/01/2010 07:58 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel helium 3 Unobtanium from Avatar which I'm aware is fiction, but is helium 3 our Unobtanium? As we sit here now many nations, Corps and private enterprises around the world are aware of the energy source.
All I hear is the sub orbit day trips. Is there still a race for the next Eureka moment (helium 3) for the human race to exploit?
Who ever gets to it first it first with mining and transport capability to Earth will have a Eureka moment.
I'm just wondering if we (world) ever will? Heck I'm still waiting on my Jetson car.NASA's planned moon base announced last week could pave the way for deeper space exploration to Mars, but one of the biggest beneficiaries may be the terrestrial energy industry. Nestled among the agency's 200-point mission goals is a proposal to mine the moon for fuel used in fusion reactors -- futuristic power plants that have been demonstrated in proof-of-concept but are likely decades away from commercial deployment. Helium-3 is considered a safe, environmentally friendly fuel candidate for these generators, and while it is scarce on Earth it is plentiful on the moon. As a result, scientists have begun to consider the practicality of mining lunar Helium-3 as a replacement for fossil fuels. Read More [ link to www.wired.com] In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. Dwight D. Eisenhower [ link to www.h-net.org] |
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12/01/2010 08:02 PM
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Report Copyright Violation | Re: Race to the Moon for Nuclear Fuel helium 3 Mine all the He3 you want, it is worthless until we have commercial nuclear fusion, something that the fusion types have been saying is 30 years away for at least the last 40 years. So there is NO pressure to mine He3 from the Moon or anywhere else. Second, at the highest concentrations of He3 found in returned lunar samples, you would have to mine 100,000 metric tons of lunar material to get one metric ton of He3. NOT an easy task! non sufficit Orbis
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