Posted on 07/01/2018 7:44:57 PM PDT by BenLurkin
>>>Going to planets like Uranus, which has plentiful Helium-3 in its atmosphere, has one big problem: The 12-year round-trip time to bring it back<<
I thought Uranus produced Methane.
It’s ok with me that they run the convenience stores. I mean after all, who else would want to?
Uranus has high amounts of Helium-3. This article says that the Helium-3 high speed Helium-3 powered tankers could carry its cargo in 140 days round-trip. Each tanker would bring back a load of 614 tons using about 254 tons of fuel.
https://www.seeker.com/project-icarus-the-gas-mines-of-uranus-discovery-news-1765273832.html
Eeeeyeeew, and not only do they call and revere the Ganges river as HOLY, it is filled with lots of the same stuff while people relieve themselves in it, bathe in it, wash clothes in it and drink from it; many times within view of each other!
Helium 3
A lot of Americans would want convenient stores if they were not slaves to junk banks, so we sell out to foreign ownership.
We should have been tariffing 50 years ago but the public is just so stupid.
Hmmmm
How much of the total weight and gravity of the moon is represented by 250,000 tons of material on the moon?
How much will the removal of 250,000 tons of material from the moon change the weight and gravity of the moon.
How much will removing that material even very slightly alter the dynamic gravitational dance in the earth-moon dance.
How much will eaths geologio and climate systems (tides) be affected by that altering.
I think scientists ought to be calculating the answers to those questions before any mining of the moon even ever so slightly alters the earth-moon gravitational dance.
Yeah, good one, helium-3. Sustained controlled fusion reaction remains impossible, but let's rush to the Moon to find some. Thanks BenLurkin.
Sun in a Bottle:
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
India holds the majority reserves of thorium in the form of Monazite enriched beach sand located on the country’s western coastline.
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