I think the same could be said of the Earth's ordinary hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen & oxygen -- "But the research has not matured sufficiently to demonstrate that the proton-burning C-N-O catalytic fusion cycle can be sustained in ways to produce more energy than the reaction consumes."
....there's an awful lot more hydrogen & CNO on Earth than the "estimate that the most accessible layers of the lunar soil are laced with one million tons of helium-3."
Sure hope that's not the only reason we decide to go back to the Moon :-(
Jaro
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-----Original Message-----
From: Susan L Gawarecki [mailto:loc@icx.net]
Sent: Monday December 09, 2002 3:49 PM
To: RADSAFE
Subject: Moon's surface brimming with untapped power
Moon's surface brimming with untapped power - Geologist believes
plentiful element holds energy value
By MARK CARREAU
Dec. 8, 2002, 9:41 AM
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/space/1692518
Astronauts journeyed to the moon as a display of Cold War technical
prowess, but the far-reaching legacy of their explorations may be the
discovery of an invisible nuclear power source locked in the gray lunar soil.
The material is helium-3, a rare form of nature's second most plentiful
chemical element and a potential radiation-free source of nuclear
fusion-generated electricity.