Burnham Treezdown wrote in
:

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 04:51:53 -0500, Nick Hull
wrote:

I was reading in Popular Mechanics about a harebrained scheme to mine
the He3 from the moon to provide nuclear electricity for the earth.
The rough guesses were that mining 1 sq mile of the moon might yield
200# of He3 which should provide electricity for Detroit for a year.

Why not just build the power plant on the moon & feed the energy to
Detroit with long wires? The wires could also help control the moon's
orbit becuase I here it's drifting away from us?

The power losses would be excessive, among other things. Ahem.

Sometimes the simpleest ideas are the best.


That's certainly simple-minded.

--Damon