Why don't we mine the moon for Helium 3 and use it for Fusion?

Answer 1

Helium 3 is a lot of BS being taken seriously by a lot of politicians and ex astronauts who don't know what they're talking about. It takes almost ten times as much pressure to fuse Helium 3 as it does to fuse the standard deuterium/tritium mix. All to avoid a little short lived neutron contamination of the vessel walls.

Answer 2

1. We don't know how to run a controlled fusion reaction that generates more power than it uses.
2. We don't have a base on the Moon.

That said, we should be putting lots of money into getting towards both of these things.

Answer 3

Because the moon is made of cream cheese, and so needs to be kept refrigerated in outer space otherwise it would spoil. If such a huge quantity of cheese spoils, the smell will cause us all to choke. Not a good idea,

Answer 4

I though we were mining the moon already.
For cheese.