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To: Americe_Love_it_Or_Leave_it; GSHastings

This article is 6 years old, and he predicts 15 years, that leaves 9 years:

He3’s scarcity on Earth means that little work has been done in building He3 fusion reactors. But proponents of He3 fusion claim it can cleanly generate enough energy to dwarf rival power supplies lie uranium, coal, or hydroelectricity. Harrison Schmitt, former Apollo astronaut and a one-time visitor to the Moon, is presently a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin who is involved in efforts to commercialize He3 extraction from the Moon. He suggests that about 17 square kilometres of Moon surface will provide enough energy to power a city of ten million for a year. But he doesn’t see He3 fusion technology being workable for another 15 years, and notes that lunar exploration programs and He3 fusion technology development will have to evolve hand in hand for the scenario to work.


31 posted on 12/27/2005 7:50:34 PM PST by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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To: Lokibob

I just noticed, 9 years, and 2006 (next week, equals 2015. The topic of this whole conversation, on post 1 says he predicts the year 2014. Kinda strange.


32 posted on 12/27/2005 7:54:49 PM PST by Lokibob (Spelling and typos are copyrighted. Please do not use.)
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