Helium-3 crisis today could finance lunar elevator
On Sunday, November 25, 2012 10:02:11 AM UTC-5, cfrjlr wrote:
Helium-3 is abundant on the Moon but very rare on Earth
What if, instead, you put that elevator money into a nuclear reactor to breed large quantities of tritium and then let the tritium decay into helium-3?
You could avoid all the expense of going to the moon and, if the He3 market crashes, you still have a power-generating nuclear reactor. A space elevator without a market is in a vulnerable position.
Mike Miller
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