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Doesn't using the Moon's helium-3 presuppose that we're capable of creating energy-positive helium-3 reactions here on Earth? Though at the pace we're headed b
by rory096 13y ago
Doesn't using the Moon's helium-3 presuppose that we're capable of creating energy-positive helium-3 reactions here on Earth?
Though at the pace we're headed back to the Moon now, we're probably about on target to match the perennially thirty-year-off working fusion reactor.
- spiritplumber 13y agoWe just have to ask the hot space Nazis for technical assistance.
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- fit2rule 13y ago>>Doesn't using the Moon's helium-3 presuppose that we're capable of creating energy-positive helium-3 reactions here on Earth? I think the only thing stopping us is the place to do it safely, and maybe the Chinese have realized that doing such things as he-3 experiments on the moon is probably not so difficult, after all .. I mean, of all the countries on Earth right now who would benefit from this sort of 'clean energy' production, it'd be the one place on Earth that humans have utterly shit on. So I'm all for it, by the way, even if it involves hot space Nazi's ..
- jerf 13y ago"Safely" is, if not outright trivial, at least a well-understood problem that is "easy" on the scale of energy generation problems. The problem is still commercial-scale net-positive fusion; I still haven't heard of anybody getting particularly close to that, with any known technology. (And I like to track the exotic ones, too.) There's less than no point to going to the moon to extract a fuel that we can't extract more energy than it took to collect.
- fit2rule 13y agos/he-3/something else then/ I highly doubt there is any reason to be on the Moon right now than preparation for total industrial exploitation. It may be that the Chinese space program is the only thing that will get China de-polluted.