| It would be ineffecient to extract Helium 3 from the moon Kritik1 #369859 Is it cost-effective to actually go to the moon to harvest these resources? In a paper titled “The Challenge of Mining HE-3 on the Lunar surface: how all the parts fit together”, IN sviatoslavsky presents the reality that, no, mining the moon for helium 3 is far from efficient. Concentrations of HE-3 on the moon are between 1.4 and 15 parts per billion. So, to harvest one ton of he-3 would mean processing 150 million tons of moon matter. |
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