hindus plotting to harvest helium3 from moon - habshi, have a ball

From: harmony (aka_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/12/05 

Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 18:57:29 -0600

of course, if humans mess up the moon, the tides that roll the oceans will
stop, therefore the ocean(s) across the the earth would just sit the doing
nothing, which will mean no beach tourism and the surfers will have to move
out of california.

from a conference in udaipur:
A potential gas source found on the moon's surface could hold the key to
meeting future energy demands as the earth's fossil fuels dry up in the
coming decades, scientists said on Friday.

Mineral samples from the moon contained abundant quantities of Helium 3, a
variant of the gas used in lasers and refrigerators as well as to blow up
balloons.

"When compared to the earth, the moon has a tremendous amount of Helium 3,"
said Lawrence Taylor, a director of the US Planetary Geosciences Institute,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences. "When Helium 3 combines with
deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen), the fusion proceeds at a very high
temperature and it can produce awesome amounts of energy," Taylor said.

"Just 25 tonnes of helium, which can be transported on a space shuttle, is
enough to provide electricity for the US for one year," said Taylor, who is
in Udaipur to attend a global conference on moon exploration.

Helium 3 is deposited on the lunar surface by solar winds and would have to
be extracted from moon soil and rocks. Some 200 million tonnes of lunar
soil would produce one tonne of helium, only 10 kilos of helium are
available on earth.

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