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Helium 3 is worthless without nuclear fusion technolgy. Of course, it's only 20 years in the future, same as it was 40 years ago.

Good. This is the kind of thing NASA should be doing.

Russia proposes mining helium-3 on Moon (commerce to space) ^

Posted by jb6
On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2006 12:37:47 AM EST · 38 replies · 857+ views

Interfex ^ | Jan 25 2006
MOSCOW. Jan 25 (Interfax) - Russia's Energia aerospace corporation is doing research on a project to mine helium-3, a potential fuel for future nuclear reactors, on the Moon and bring it to the Earth, and is due to finish the study before 2010, Energia President Nikolai Sevastyanov said on Wednesday. The Earth's known hydrocarbon reserves will last mankind "50 to 100 years with the present-day rate of consumption," Sevastyanov told a meeting at the Bauman State Technological University in Moscow. "There are practically no reserves of helium on the Earth. On the Moon, there are between 1 million and 500...

China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight ^

Posted by ambrose
On News/Activism ^ 02/02/2004 4:14:21 AM EST · 7 replies · 65+ views

AP ^ | 2.2.04 | AP
China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight Canadian Press Monday, February 02, 2004 BEIJING (AP) - Less than four months after it first reached the stars, China said Monday it would begin training astronauts in March for the country's second manned spaceflight - a mission that will likely include a crew of two, according to official media. The field of 14 astronauts will include Yang Liwei, who in October was catapulted into orbit as the lone astronaut aboard Shenzhou 5 for China's first manned space mission, the official Xinhua News Agency and the state-controlled Beijing Youth...

Moon plan to give U.S. control over energy sources ^

Posted by demlosers
On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2004 9:23:03 PM EST · 86 replies · 269+ views

The Hindu ^ | Monday, Jan 26, 2004 | Vladimir Radyuhin
MOSCOW, JAN. 25. The United States is planning to use the Moon as a source of energy fuel that should help it establish ultimate supremacy on the Earth, a Russian newspaper said. An ambitious programme to build a manned base on the Moon by 2020 unveiled by the U.S. President, George W. Bush, earlier this month was not a re-election gimmick as American and international media described it, but a strategic economically project, the authoritative Izvestia newspaper said. A lunar base will enable the U.S. to bring back to Earth shiploads of Helium-3, a valuable fuel for thermonuclear reactors, which...

The Moon can provide electric power sufficient for 1000 years [Says Russian scientist] ^

Posted by aculeus
On News/Activism ^ 01/24/2004 1:42:28 PM EST · 46 replies · 4,430+ views

Pravda ^ | 01/24/2004 | Translated by: Andrey Nesterov
According to Academician and member of Council on Space of Russian Academy of Science Eric Galimov, the Moon can provide the mankind with electric power sufficient for 1000 years of use. "Scientists think that the Earth supplies of oil, gas and uranium will be exhausted in the 2150s, therefore currently the mankind is required to look for alternative sources of energy", he said in an interview to ITAR-TASS information agency. "Helium-3 is the most promising source of energy, its supplies in the upper layers of the Moon surface are about 500 million tons", the Academician said. There is no this...

Politics of a Lunar Colony: How to wean Earth from Oil to Helium-3 ^

Posted by rface
On News/Activism ^ 01/09/2004 7:32:52 PM EST · 22 replies · 239+ views

AP and also Special to SPACE.com | varried | Julie Wakefield, MARCIA DUNN
We've all heard, discussed or read the stories about how Bush is going to propose a new mission for NASA and the establishment of a colony on the Moon and then on to Mars - but I searched through the various posting of this story and saw nothing (very little) mentioned of the promise that HELIUM-3 holds as an energy source. I wonder why Bush hasn't held out the potential of HELIUM-3. The screaming about how oil based energy has harmed Earth is a talking point that Bush should use. "A big reason we are going to the Moon is...

Russia proposes mining helium-3 on Moon (commerce to space) ^
	Posted by jb6 On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2006 12:37:47 AM EST · 38 replies · 857+ views Interfex ^ \| Jan 25 2006 MOSCOW. Jan 25 (Interfax) - Russia's Energia aerospace corporation is doing research on a project to mine helium-3, a potential fuel for future nuclear reactors, on the Moon and bring it to the Earth, and is due to finish the study before 2010, Energia President Nikolai Sevastyanov said on Wednesday. The Earth's known hydrocarbon reserves will last mankind "50 to 100 years with the present-day rate of consumption," Sevastyanov told a meeting at the Bauman State Technological University in Moscow. "There are practically no reserves of helium on the Earth. On the Moon, there are between 1 million and 500...

China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight ^
	Posted by ambrose On News/Activism ^ 02/02/2004 4:14:21 AM EST · 7 replies · 65+ views AP ^ \| 2.2.04 \| AP China announces plans to start astronaut training for next manned flight Canadian Press Monday, February 02, 2004 BEIJING (AP) - Less than four months after it first reached the stars, China said Monday it would begin training astronauts in March for the country's second manned spaceflight - a mission that will likely include a crew of two, according to official media. The field of 14 astronauts will include Yang Liwei, who in October was catapulted into orbit as the lone astronaut aboard Shenzhou 5 for China's first manned space mission, the official Xinhua News Agency and the state-controlled Beijing Youth...

Moon plan to give U.S. control over energy sources ^
	Posted by demlosers On News/Activism ^ 01/26/2004 9:23:03 PM EST · 86 replies · 269+ views The Hindu ^ \| Monday, Jan 26, 2004 \| Vladimir Radyuhin MOSCOW, JAN. 25. The United States is planning to use the Moon as a source of energy fuel that should help it establish ultimate supremacy on the Earth, a Russian newspaper said. An ambitious programme to build a manned base on the Moon by 2020 unveiled by the U.S. President, George W. Bush, earlier this month was not a re-election gimmick as American and international media described it, but a strategic economically project, the authoritative Izvestia newspaper said. A lunar base will enable the U.S. to bring back to Earth shiploads of Helium-3, a valuable fuel for thermonuclear reactors, which...

The Moon can provide electric power sufficient for 1000 years [Says Russian scientist] ^
	Posted by aculeus On News/Activism ^ 01/24/2004 1:42:28 PM EST · 46 replies · 4,430+ views Pravda ^ \| 01/24/2004 \| Translated by: Andrey Nesterov According to Academician and member of Council on Space of Russian Academy of Science Eric Galimov, the Moon can provide the mankind with electric power sufficient for 1000 years of use. "Scientists think that the Earth supplies of oil, gas and uranium will be exhausted in the 2150s, therefore currently the mankind is required to look for alternative sources of energy", he said in an interview to ITAR-TASS information agency. "Helium-3 is the most promising source of energy, its supplies in the upper layers of the Moon surface are about 500 million tons", the Academician said. There is no this...

Politics of a Lunar Colony: How to wean Earth from Oil to Helium-3 ^
	Posted by rface On News/Activism ^ 01/09/2004 7:32:52 PM EST · 22 replies · 239+ views AP and also Special to SPACE.com \| varried \| Julie Wakefield, MARCIA DUNN We've all heard, discussed or read the stories about how Bush is going to propose a new mission for NASA and the establishment of a colony on the Moon and then on to Mars - but I searched through the various posting of this story and saw nothing (very little) mentioned of the promise that HELIUM-3 holds as an energy source. I wonder why Bush hasn't held out the potential of HELIUM-3. The screaming about how oil based energy has harmed Earth is a talking point that Bush should use. "A big reason we are going to the Moon is...