Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today Forum: SSI-List
Thread: Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today
# 22806 byHenry Smith on Nov. 23, 2012, 12:34 p.m.
Member since 2022-08-22
From Hank Smith, so we will need Financial backing from lunatics, huh? Or, are we full of hot air? Actually, I am both!!
Existing Helium-3 market could finance lunar elevator today
Helium-3 is abundant on the Moon but very rare on Earth
http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/News/2012/January/helium-3-isotopes-shortage-alternatives-neutron-detectors.asp
It looks like market demand for He-3 is about 20,000 liters per year, currently priced at $2000 per litre, or $40 million per year. If this were the only revenue source for a lunar elevator it might be enough to service the debt on $800 million to build it.