[Willie Green]

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Thought you might be interested in this.
Of course, you already know that Spencer Abraham is gonna dictate that any new moon shuttles built by NASA must be powered only by zero-emission solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells.

[Constantine XIII]

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[RightWhale]

The Chinese are also well aware of He3 and that is in their plan for moon exploration.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

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[aruanan]

With the oil age starting to appear alarmingly finite, and with governments all over the planet searching for new energy sources, space scientists are looking at yet another fuel source, this one distributed on the moon over billions of years as birds distributed guano on the island of Nauru.

It started to appear alarmingly finite at the very beginning of its modern use as a fuel.

[AZLiberty]

What are the chances that environmentalists will allow strip-mining on the moon? Or is there a way to extract He3 from lunar soil without disturbing the soil?

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

One tonne, they say, could supply the energy needs of a city of 10 million people when combined in a fusion reactor with a form of hydrogen extracted from water.

Ooops. Exactly which fusion reactor is that now?

[sourcery]

[Mike Darancette]

Nuclear fusion is the other source of energy, but faces lots of political problems because of the radioactive waste it produces and because it produces a great number of neurons, which damage reactors, cutting their life.

What????

[taxcontrol]

Ok, let me get this straight.

The author advocates using an untested fuel from the MOON (a place that we have not visited since the '70s), extract this via some undiscovered means, transport it by some unknown means back to earth. Process it somehow, ship it somehow and use it with a FUSION reactor (of which NONE exists) to boost power production.

Did I get this right?

Gosh, why don't we just go to the sun and extract some of the sun's surface, transport it back to earth and use it's energy.

[man, what is this guy smoking?]