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The moon has a ton of deuterium which could be used for all sorts of things, nuclear power plants and possibly future propulsion tech for example.
by Apofis 7y ago
The moon has a ton of deuterium which could be used for all sorts of things, nuclear power plants and possibly future propulsion tech for example.
- wolfram74 7y agoDeuterium is abundant on earth as well. It's tritium and helium3 that's unusually abundant on the moon. But it's the result of solar wind deposition over copious amounts of time. And it's one of the dumbest reason to mine the moon. You can run the math the flux of those elements from the solar wind is minuscule. The area you'd need to harvest for a reliable steady state is huge. You'd be better off putting up solar panels, energizing a rail gun and launching more solar panels into space made from lunar silica.
- Apofis 7y agoOkay, railgun it is.