[Wally_Kalbacken]

Numen Lumen!

[KantianBurke]

Robert Bless, retired UW professor of astronomy, believes that the U.S. should be investing in fuel technologies on Earth. "We should be getting the people in Detroit to start designing vehicles that use less gas," he said. "We should be focusing our efforts here," not on the moon, he said.

Boy I wonder how this idiot votes? 2 to 1 odds he's got a copy of Gorbot's manifesto - SIGNED.

[newgeezer]

Energy ping.

[RightWhale]

"If we could land the space shuttle on the moon

That'll happen. Probably a commercial fusion reactor will be on line first. These moon power declarations are forward-looking statements that depend on several things that haven't happened yet.

[Prodigal Son]

Wouldn't it be easier to just build enormous solar panels in Earth orbit?

[self_evident]

The problem, he said, is at the moment, no one has built a fusion reactor that emits more energy than it consumes.

A no one is even close.

[rface]

Does He3 make you talk funny when you breath it?

[nightdriver]

"The energy source, helium-3, literally litters the moon's surface, said Gerald Kulcinski, professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Fusion Technology Institute at UW."

So, let's spend a lot of money to go to the moon and take a cooker with us to bake something out of the rocks that we aren't sure is there and then spend more money to process it and bring it back where we don't have any way to turn it into useful energy!

What a stretch!

Well, at least it would keep these guys at Wisconsin off the streets so they would be less of a danger to society.

[citizen]

bttt for later

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Too Cheap to Meter"

[ambrose]

ttt