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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
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There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. A pound of Helium-3 is having energy equivalent of 1 Million ton of Coal. You may view the Full Article he http://www.softtanks.com/Todays_Arti...p?Topic=Energy Fusion of helium-3 does not produce greenhouse emissions, and mining it would do little environmental harm The moon doesn`t have air or water. So, there won`t be any of that kind of pollution. So after Earth next mining target will be Moon. Bye Sanjay http://www.softtanks.com/Todays_Arti...p?Topic=Energy |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
Sanjay wrote:
There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. Unfortunately, fusion reactors do not currently exist. And we are nowhere near discovering how to maintain a controlled fusion reaction. This is amazingly seen as a minor obstacle by people advocating lunar bases based on arguments about the possibilities of extracting He-3 on the Moon. /steen |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
In sci.space.tech Sanjay wrote:
Hello Friends, There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. A pound of Helium-3 is having energy equivalent of 1 Million ton of Coal. snip Fusion of helium-3 does not produce greenhouse emissions, and mining it would do little environmental harm The moon doesn`t have air or Neither does fission. But nobody has done helium-3 fusion to produce energy. Hell, nobody has done continuous fusion to produce energy. |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
(Sanjay) wrote in message om...
Hello Friends, There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. A pound of Helium-3 is having energy equivalent of 1 Million ton of Coal. You may view the Full Article he http://www.softtanks.com/Todays_Arti...p?Topic=Energy snip Or if you really want information on this prospect why not check out: http://fti.neep.wisc.edu/research/he3.html The people working for FTI (a former Apollo astronaut, professors, scientists, etc.) actually do this stuff for a living instead of trying to promote some website. Aaron |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
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Hello Friends, There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. You are confusing net energy potential with economically recoverable energy. If it takes ten watthours to mine one watthour, then you have a net energy sink and are simply destroying gasoline. Mining Helium 3 off the moon makes almost (but not quite) as much sense as recovering tire rubber off the highways. See http://www.tinaja.com/glib/energfun.pdf -- Many thanks, Don Lancaster Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552 voice: (928)428-4073 email: fax 847-574-1462 Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
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m... There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. Just one minor problem: the fusion reactors which would burn this fuel do not yet exist even as paper designs. He3 fusion would be the more difficult of 3 different fusion cycles proposed. We've been working on the easiest for decades, spending many tens of billions with no commercially useful results. On the other hand, all of the technical building blocks for Solar Power Satellites exists at present. SPS could solve all our energy needs for as long as the sun shines. But one of the more economical sources of the raw materials needed to build SPS would be the moon. So mining the moon may yet figure into the solution to our energy problems. See http://members.aol.com/oscarcombs/settle.htm -- Regards, Mike Combs ---------------------------------------------------------------------- We should ask, critically and with appeal to the numbers, whether the best site for a growing advancing industrial society is Earth, the Moon, Mars, some other planet, or somewhere else entirely. Surprisingly, the answer will be inescapable - the best site is "somewhere else entirely." Gerard O'Neill - "The High Frontier" |
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Mining the moon for unlimited Energy.
"Sanjay" wrote in message m... Hello Friends, There is plenty of energy on moons crust that if we can mine Helium 3 Gas out of Moons crust we can solve all our energy needs for 1000 years. A pound of Helium-3 is having energy equivalent of 1 Million ton of Coal. You may view the Full Article he http://www.softtanks.com/Todays_Arti...p?Topic=Energy Fusion of helium-3 does not produce greenhouse emissions, and mining it would do little environmental harm The moon doesn`t have air or water. So, there won`t be any of that kind of pollution. Yep. Sometime in the future. He3 fusion is theoretically more difficult than fusing deuterium, and we haven't made that pay yet. Given that we can do that economically, it might still make more sense to scoop it out of the atmospheres of the giant planets than to strip-mine the surface of the moon. It bears thinking about: don't know if I want my great-great-grandkids looking up at night and seeing Lunar Pit Mine Number 12 where Tycho used to be. Regards, Jonathan Wilson |
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