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Mine The Moon For Helium-3
Rob Kennedy writes "A story at The Daily Cardinal is reporting that UW-Madison researchers are looking to mine the moon for helium-3 as an energy source, which supposedly would yield about 1000 times more energy per pound than coal. Although there are several hurdles that would need to be cleared, The Associated Press mentions one catch in particular: 'The researchers still are working on building a helium-3 reactor that would produce more energy than it takes in.' Indeed. SciScoop has a more in-depth discussion of the prospect."
Balloon sellers go out of business as prices of helium plummet
18 year old choirboys whose voices broke 4 years ago rejoyce
If inhaling Helium-1 makes my voice high, Helium-2 makes it higher, how high will Helium-3 make it?
great now whats going to keep it floating up there??? :)
...just like it was 50 years ago.
Is there REALLY anything wrong with Fission power?
Yes. It's politically and socially unacceptable.
"They redundantly repeated themselves over and over again incessantly without end ad infinitum" -- ibid.
Any other cynics out there thinking some Haliburton exec read some popular science mag and talk Cheney/Bush to annex the Moon for them quick?
Noam?? Is that you??
Moneyed corporations, non-working 'poor' and criminal prisoners are turning productive citizens into tax-slaves.
- Homer J. Simpson
There is no gravity...the earth just sucks.
okay so it's "over a million tons for every man, woman, and child on Earth!" But what's that in terms we can all understand?
How many VW's is that, or library on Congresses?
In democracy your vote counts. In feudalism your count votes.