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To: KevinDavis

I also enjoy these space exploration topics. However, I am curious. How do we know the moon has vast amounts of Helium 3(whatever that is). I remmeber there was series on the Apollo missions that was doen by Tom Hanks. In one of the final missions they actually had a real "Geology" mission. I dont recall anything about anysort of Helium reserves.


3 posted on 05/18/2006 9:19:25 PM PDT by catholicfreeper (Proud supporter of Pres. Bush and the Gop-- with no caveats, qualifiers, or bitc*en)
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To: catholicfreeper

HE-3 is found on earth in microscopic amounts, and on the moon in great quantitys.
HE-3 is being looked at in a few research instutes as a replacement for oil. It is estimated that a shuttle load of HE-3 would power the entire U.S. for 100 years. It is used in a cold fusion reactor.
I can send you a URL on HE-3 or you can google it. Really interesting stuff.


6 posted on 05/18/2006 9:46:57 PM PDT by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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To: catholicfreeper
Iirc, the helium 3 is produced by cosmic rays hitting the regolith--it is spread out over the lunar surface.

Not cold fusion, hot fusion.

10 posted on 05/18/2006 10:26:41 PM PDT by Cruising Speed
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