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0 pointsZikes10y ago0 comments

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3 ought to do the trick.

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ZikesOP10y ago

I'm a bit surprised at the downvotes. I'm no scientist, but I meant this suggestion in earnest. As far as my layman's knowledge goes, I've always understood the Moon's He-3 reserves to be a "vast, as-yet-untapped power resource".

marcosdumay10y ago

People have to learn how to harvest power from fusion before.

ars10y ago

You know how they have chemically pumped lasers?

So it would be awesome to directly pump the laser from H3 fusion.

H3 fusion is actually very easy - I think we could do it today. We just don't have a readily available source of H3 for fuel.

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