> Helium-3 (He3) is gas that has the potential to be used as a fuel in future nuclear fusion power plants. There is potential, but this is for very far in the

> Helium-3 (He3) is gas that has the potential to be used as a fuel in future nuclear fusion power plants. There is potential, but this is for very far in the future. Getting an energy-positive fusion reaction going in ITER is still at minimum 20 years away - and it uses the simpler to fuse Deuterium+Tritium fuel. Getting commercial fusion power plants, and ones that fuse Helium-3 instead, might easily be 50-100 years away. With the price of wind and solar energy dropping fast, people and politicians are getting less and less interested in funding fusion research at all. My prediction is that nobody will be willing to pay for Helium-3 mining on the Moon in this century.