US flag on the moon
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We've written before that both the US and China
have plans to go to the
moon?
not for exploration, as the US claims, but to mine the
incredibly valuable fuel Helium 3 that's found there. The US
won't admit that our true reason for returning to the moon,
and China is equivocal about theirs, but Russia is plain spoken
about it?they say they're planning a moon trip in order to
get the Helium 3. Will there be a future war in space over
moon fuel?
In 1969, the Apollo 11 crew planted an American flag on the
moon. That symbolic gesture could be interpreted to mean
that we own the moon and its valuable fuel. We could see a
strange scenario in the future: if the US takes control of the
moon, we could become the new Saudi Arabia, selling
essential fuel at high prices to the rest of the world.
Andrew Osborn writes in the Independent that Russia plans to
start mining the Moon for Helium 3, which can simply be
shoveled
up from the surface. There is enough Helium 3 on the moon
to meet the Earth's power needs for over a thousand years.
The problem with moon mining is how to get the fuel back to
Earth. Russia plans to build a permanent base on the moon
within the next ten years. They've already succeeded in
building a space station, although the Mir is now defunct.
Helium 3 is an isotope (a unique atomic arrangement) of the
element Helium which is invaluable in
fusion
reactors, which the Chinese plan to build to serve their
energy needs in the future. When you hear the word "fusion,"
it's a clue that a country or company plans to mine Helium 3
on the moon.
When the solar wind coming from the sun hits the moon,
helium 3 is deposited in the powdery soil. It has built up over
billions of years. Apollo astronauts found helium 3 on the
moon in 1969, but didn't realize it could be used for fuel until
they returned to Earth and talked to fusion engineers. Helium
3 fusion produces far less
radioactivity than current nuclear power plants. You
could safely build a helium 3 plant in the middle of a big city.
But it order to get it, someone will have to strip-mine large
surfaces of the moon. Since one side of the moon is always
facing away from the Earth, this is the side they would
probably mine, so that the "man in the moon" image we see
from Earth would remain unchanged.
The real reason to switch to Helium 3 is to stop
global
warming. Whitley Strieber and
Art Bell were the
first writers who dared to bring this subject to the public.
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about where Whitley got the
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