Existing Commercial Potential for Helium-3 from Luna

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Thread: Existing Commercial Potential for Helium-3 from Luna

# 21373 byAlex Michael Bonnici on Dec. 28, 2006, 7:26 a.m.
Member since 2022-08-22

Why all this focus on Lunar helium-3? Why not a renewed discussion
of Solar Power Satellites or Lunar Based Solar Power Stations?

The problem I think is there may just be too many projects crying out
for our attention.

Alex

>
> > Wouldn't it be a lot more economical to get this material from a
> Near
> > Earth Asteroid located at about 0.25 AU from Earth?
> >
> My understanding about He3 is that it is imbedded in the deep lunar
> regolith. Which it(the regolith) was created after of billions of
> years of micro meteor impacts and also it retains it due to its
> gravity.
>
> Most asteroids have such weak gravitational fields that they would
> not be able to retain such a regolith and would not be a good
source
> for He3, the only other source that I have heard of for He3, was
the