From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Sun May 26 2002 - 11:46:40 MDT
My sense of this is that:
1) We do not even have the capability to create deuterium-tritium reactions
to create
commericial electricity.
2) Therefore, we maybe generations or centuries from creating and affording
fusion
reactors that work by deuterium-HEł
3) Therefore the "motion" to ban minning on the moon is merely a chimera
4) We are having difficulty utilizing even solar and wind power,
commercially, by
comparison, so the lunar approach, whether by Japanese scientists seeking
HEł
(originators) or Criswell seeking to beam microwaves to earth stations
seems
wildly, premature. We have plenty of half-baked ideas that can be
circulated,
finding something that is technically and commericially viable
(afforable) is
another.
This is a tempest in a teapot, and its not even a tempest.
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Steve Davies offered this article:
<<Today the Moon is seen as the ideal location for an off-planet solar power
station that could beam energy back to Earth. There have also been proposals
to mine it for helium-3, an isotope rare on Earth, that could be a source of
clean, cheap energy.
But Mr Steiner says that a year of helium-3 mining would create a 60-mile
eyesore that would be visible from Earth.>>
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