Posted on 01/28/2012 9:07:59 AM PST by Hojczyk
Newt Gingrich told Floridians this week that that under his administration the US would have the first permanent base on the moon. An American moon base could provide America with enough Helium-3 to provide for all of country’s energy needs
Nations and private companies are racing to be the first to scout the moon for Helium 3, a rare gas which could make almost unlimited, clean fusion energy a reality.
Some experts estimate there a millions of tons in lunar soil — and that a single Space-Shuttle load would power the entire United States for a year. Both China and Russia have stated their nations’ interest in helium-3.
A moon base could also provide America with several rare earth elements. Discovery reported:
As Discovery News reports, thanks to a critical shortage last year, the price of the isotope helium-3 has skyrocketed from $150 per liter to $5,000 per liter.
Helium is used for arc welding and leak detection, mostly, although NASA uses it to pressurize space shuttle fuel tanks. Liquid helium cools infrared detectors, nuclear reactors, and the superconducting magnets used in MRI machines, too. The fear is that, at current consumption rates, that underground bunker will be empty within 20 years, leaving the earth almost helium-free by the end of the 21st century. This could be bad for US industry.
It also bodes ill for the prospect of fusion using helium-3, a rare helium isotope that is missing a neutron. Physicists have yet to achieve pure helium-3 fusion, but if they did, we’d have a clean, virtually infinite power source. Or so the theory goes.
And that’s where the moon comes in. The moon’s lunar soil is chock-full of helium reserves, thanks to the solar wind.
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And how bout that religion that kills...ah worships under the name of their pedophile moon god. Now that would involve them in NASA and our rocket ships would quickly become giant EIDs.
EARTH FIRST. (we’ll mine the other planets later)
We will in the not to distant future achieve it though and it will take that long to build the infrastructure to mine it on the moon. Plus there are other uses for it I’m sure. From what I have read the fusion reaction would produce electrons directly and no harmful radiation. I’d rather we were spending the money we have sunk into solar and wind to try and achieve HE3 fusion. Think about it. If we are going to have fusion power in 20-30 years solar and wind will be so obsolete that no one will want them. Why when one clean reactor could replace hundreds of square miles of wind turbines. I say we burn coal and oil like it’s going out of style. Drill as much as we can because in hopefully 30 years we will have the ultimate power source and the stronger our economy is the faster we will get to reliable fusion.
BUMO for later read
Sun in a Bottle:
The Strange History of Fusion
and the Science of Wishful Thinking
by Charles Seife
Does that “sun in a bottle” book mention the muonium fusion scam too?
Rush Holt, US Rep (D-NJ): “From 1989 until his successful congressional campaign in 1998, Holt was the Assistant Director of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory at Princeton University, the University’s largest research facility and the largest center for energy research in New Jersey.”
It seems that Mr. Holt was in the middle of the Big Fusion Con Job. For it is almost certainly a huge con job of science.
Thanks bvw.
[kicks a dirt clod] [whines] What? I still don’t get my Mr. Fusion? Heck.
I think I saw a topic go by (I’m doing a topic save right now, first one since the 17th) about a DeLorean electric car.
Velcro is the brand name of the first commercially marketed fabric hook-and-loop fastener,[1] invented in 1948 by the Swiss electrical engineer George de Mestral. De Mestral patented Velcro in 1955, subsequently refining and developing its practical manufacture until its commercial introduction in the late 1950s
It’s my understanding that the idea for Velcro came from a type of weed seed that sticks to clothing or fur.
Velcro?hmm...yes....it was brought to earth, at Carbon Creek PA, in 1957 aboard a Vulcan spacecraft and the patent sold to earth investers by ‘Mestral’, T’pols great grandmother.
Live long and prosper.
oooops it was T’mir who was T’pol’s forebear. Mestril was a crewman on the Vulcan ship, who stayed on earth after the rest were rescued.
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