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It was Helium-3. Potentially useful for certain types of fusion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Candidate_fuels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
by Symmetry 3y ago
It was Helium-3.
Potentially useful for certain types of fusion.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Candidate_fuels https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aneutronic_fusion#Candidate_fu...
And maybe cooling certain types of quantum computer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilution_refrigerator
- jauntywundrkind 3y agoMoonshine (2010) remains the definitive write-up on (against) Helium-3 for me, from sci-fi notable Charles Stross. > He 3 is not magic high-energy pixie dust. And in the context of the space colonization debate it should be seen for what it is — a placeholder for the alchemist's stone that will turn the money-hole of a lunar colony into a profit centre: an extractable natural resource that can't be found on earth and is valuable enough to mine elsewhere. https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/moonshine.html https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/08/moonshi...