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Scottish Academic: Mining the Moon For Helium 3 Is Evil

Posted by samzenpus on from the hold-the-cheese dept.

MarkWhittington writes "Tony Milligan is a teaching fellow of philosophy at the University of Aberdeen and is apparently concerned about helium 3 mining on the moon. In a recent paper he suggested that it should not be allowed for a number of reasons which include environmental objections, his belief that the moon is a cultural artifact, and that too much access to energy would be bad for the human race."

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  1. Re:Useless academic is useless. by real-modo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Thanks. Two good paragraphs.

    Current global power consumption, 15 TW, is enough to raise the surface temperature by something the order of a hundredth of a degree. So if we used 10,000 times as much energy as we do now, it could be bad.

    Agreed, that's not an immediate prospect; and there are five and a half billion people who need more cheap energy.