What private company is trying to pull this off?
2007-09-30 13:52:23 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
Yes. Google Buzz Aldrin.He's heading a company with plans to do that.
2007-09-30 14:01:32 · answer #1 · answered by Mark K 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read about that recently, or maybe they said it in "In the Saddow of the Moon."
I don't understand how they would have found any He3 on the moon since it is a gas and does not form stable chemical compounds with any other element. Unless a small trace was found trapped in a specimen. But does that mean it is in large enough amounts to make it worth going all the way there for mining?
I don't see the big value in He3, anyway. Harrison Schmidt said it could be used as a fuel - I presume he meant in a fusion reaction.
Well, we don't have any viable fusion reactors and nobody is really coming close to getting one. And we seem to do okay isolating enough fusionable material (deuterium, not He3) here on Earth to destroy it so do we need more of that?
So, I am pretty sure there is no private company trying to do this since there is no technology to do it that could be afforded by a private company, there are no proven reserves of the material on the Moon and there is no market for it if it could be gotten.
2007-09-30 14:01:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just getting it doesn't solve the problem, they still have to learn to make fusion with it. If they can, then trips to the moon need to be done more economically. There is real hope in this scenario, but there are major technological hurdles that need to be overcome, and only a concentrated effort will produce them.
2007-09-30 14:39:29 · answer #3 · answered by Steve C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possible yes,
expensive yes
worth it? probably no.
company: i dont know.
2007-09-30 14:00:33 · answer #4 · answered by mrzwink 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋