Helium-3: Mining the fuel of the future on the Moon

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• optissima@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Imagine claiming mining helium is the solution when free energy is right there radiating from the sun.

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Imagine thinking there's only one solution.

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    • credo@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Starting an international corporate race to carve up the moon seems like a good choice.

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    • Buffalox@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      False dichotomy.

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    • MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Maybe with automated gathering and launched via mass launcher directly into earths athmosphere, it could be somewhat competitive

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  • 3volver@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How do you suggest producing a significant amount of thrust in a vacuum using the sun?

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    • optissima@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Though, of course, simple scientific curiosity may not justify the enormous cost of the undertaking. That’s where commercial interest comes in.

      That’s not what this is about, the author doesn’t care about that, all they see is a finite, exploitable resource that will line their pockets.

      However, to answer your question, we already have that technology.

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  • MrSoup@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try driving a solar powered car.

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    • jws_shadotak@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Solar powered grid charges the car when not in use

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    • optissima@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Laughs in electric train

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    • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I now require people who offer me to try out a solar powered car to provide directions to said car, lest your comment be labeled a sarcastic cock-tease.

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• RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  How to get contries to develop their space programs and colonize the moon: “Its made of oil!”

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I really wanted to go when I was a kid and was told it was made out of cheese.

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    • Hugh_Jeggs@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I heard it was Wensleydale and I wasn’t that keen

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• n3cr0@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This whole post is a joke about Moon Nazis! Is it?

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• Blue0x@programming.dev ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Send in the Reds!

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  • confused_code_monkey@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Bloody damn pixie

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    • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      My goodman, you sound like a Red pretending to be a Gold.

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• thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Wait, isn’t this just the plot of that Adam Rockwell movie - Moon?

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• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fusion is coming, who cares about He3?

  SK had a 45 sec reaction, we might actually be less than 20 years away from net positive energy.

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  • Sabin10@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Helium 3 is what we’re planning to use in fusion, that’s the point.

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    • CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Fair enough, I assumed it was for batteries

      I wish they’d throw more money at cold fusion too. Just need Palladium for that one 😅

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  • Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    ITER will not be having the first full fusion before 2040. And that’s just a prototype for science, it will not be a fusion power plant for generating energy for the public grid. So: fusion is still not very near.

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    • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wish this canard that fusion is right around the corner would die, we’re nowhere near. Where are people like OP getting their information from?

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• rottingleaf@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I think it was 20 years ago in a sci-fi themed magazine for kids (“Miracles and mysteries of the planet Earth” or “Young erudite” maybe) where I first have read something about this thing being mined in no further than 20 years from then.

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