The man was a three-year contract worker, his only job to send shipments of an energy source called helium-3 back to Earth. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Sam Bell, assisted by his robotic aid GERTY, is the sole engineer on the lunar base handling the helium-3 extraction. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Any strife over lunar land, governance, and resources (helium-3, basically the real reason moon colonization is happening now) is probably going to occur anyways, whether the initial outpost is cooperatively built or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It contains helium-3, a non radioactive isotope that fuels clean nuclear fusion. ❋ Unknown (2010)
“If we human beings can finally use such energy material to generate electricity, then China might need 10 tons of helium-3 every year and in the world, about 100 tons of helium-3 will be needed every year.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Lunar Industries corporation has given the world cheap energy thanks to a helium-3 mining operation on the far side of the Moon. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2010)
Although I wrote the book "Return to the Moon" as an illustration of how it makes financial and national sense for private investors to provide the Earth with the benefits of lunar helium-3 fusion power, having NASA develop the initial Earth-Moon infrastructure may hasten the time when that alternative to fossil fuels and non-economic other alternatives becomes available. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Ouyang Ziyuan, head of the first phase of lunar exploration, was quoted on government-sanctioned news site ChinaNews. com describing plans to collect three dimensional images of the Moon for future mining of Helium 3: “There are altogether 15 tons of helium-3 on Earth, while on the Moon, the total amount of Helium-3 can reach one to five million tons.” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Our room was a maintenance node on a helium-3 tanker which rotated slowly to even out solar heating on its hull. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Moon opens with a back-story - the solution to the Earth's energy crisis rests on mining lunar helium-3 for fusion - that is simple enough to be explained in a few seconds, and plausible enough to support the later twists. ❋ Sci-Fi Gene (2009)
Bilder sets out various options including ratifying the present Moon Agreement, establishing an international lunar resource regime outside of the framework of the Moon Agreement, and setting up either an international organization or some other enterprise for mining lunar helium-3. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Underlying this is his argument that significant public or private investment in helium-3 mining would be predicated on a stable legal regime concerning the property and ownership issues of mined lunar resources. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In addition to the idea of using helium-3 for nuclear fusion power on earth, it is also one of the most commonly posited potential fuel sources for crewed spacecraft to the asteroid belt and outer planets. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In 2090 the Jovian Sky Power Corporation begins mining helium-3 from the atmosphere of Jupiter and builds a bitek space station, Eden, as a cheap alternative to a traditional but expensive hollowed-out asteroid habitat. ❋ Adam Whitehead (2009)
Significant public or private investment in helium-3 mining would be predicated on a stable legal regime concerning the property and ownership issues of mined lunar resources. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Dude1: Any [clue] what the Spaceships are going to use as [fuel]?
Dude2: Helium-3 [for sure]. ❋ DeadSix17 (2010)
