Do you think the moon Should be Farmed for its Helium 3?

Question

Basicly, Fussion, the same Reaction that takes place on the Sun, can be used on earth to produce energy that is safe and Eviroment Friendly. However, damage to the Chamber Walls when the reaction takes place are huge, but tests show by using Helium 3, these damages can be reduced massively. The 2nd However comes because we dont have Helium 3 on earth, but the moon has it huge deposits of it, and already many countries including England, the USA, Russia and Japan want to take advantage of this. What do you think?

It was part of a program on TV last night, its not a gas, its a substance that was found amoung the samples of "moonrock" given out by the USA to various other country Leaders during the time of the Apollow missions.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200411/s1252715.htm

By the Way: I do not Agree at all with Stripping The moon of it Helium 3.

Answer 1

Great. We have raped this planet and just can't wait to rape another heavenly body just to satisfy our lust for power.
Isn't the human race a lovesome thing?

Answer 2

When I was younger, I got all excited by this idea. Then I asked a physics professor who specialized in experiments involving He-3 what he thought about the idea. I think I said something like "is there He-3 on the moon?". He said, "He-3 is a gas", and that was the end of that. I felt pretty dumb.

Answer 3

You have 10 kg of He-3. What will you do with it? Aside from being the working fluid in He-3 dilution refrigerators, it is mostly worthless.

Controlled hot fusion is refinement of bomb codes disguised as a civilian energy project. It is ridiculous at face value. Tolerences *average* in electronic circuits. Digital watches and computers work. Tolerences *add* in magnetohydrodynamics. Tiny thingie on a desktop, $billion dollar warehouse overflowing with PhDs, or the sun... it's still a frightful mess routinely blowing out of containment.

It costs $(US)30/gram to loft mass into low Earth orbit in the Space Scuttle. Do you suspect working with a fuel that costs more than its weight in platinum FOB the powerhouse is a bad idea even while still on paper?

Answer 4

Yes it may actually help but what happens when we run out of it. We'll keep needing to make more and more trips. That's a few billion dollars right there. And also what if the moon is affected by it. Don't you want a moon to look up at in the sky?

Answer 5

I love the idea that countries are looking toward mining the moon for Helium 3. It's a long way out, mainly because of how costly it will be to essentially strip mine large portions of the moon, but it is certainly promising.

Answer 6

Are you sure of your information? How is the helium's presence on moon detected? It cannot be in gas form since it will simply escape into space because of the low gravity of moon, which is 1/6th of earth's.

I will be interested to know the source of helium on moon.

Answer 7

We shouldn't strip the moon from it's Helium 3, no. But if He 3 is really such a good thing and God gave us the means to reach it, why not?

Answer 8

There's plenty of He 3 on earth if we ever need it and fusion will probably no be running for about 40 years. We don't need to go to the moon to get it

Answer 9

NOPE, better idea, go to Mars and get helium 4

Answer 10

I think it would be more profitable if the moon was farmed for cheese.