Timeline for What is JAXA looking for on the Moon in the way of 'potential utilization'?
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| Aug 8, 2014 at 19:39 | comment | added | Calvin | The great thing about fusion and lunar extraction is that both are limited exclusively by political capital to fund long-term optimal solutions. They'll likely develop at equivalent rates. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:42 | comment | added | TildalWave | He-3 might be interesting on the long run but for now, short of a handful of niche applications like in medical imaging actually doesn't have much use. There's plenty of He-3 on Earth itself even in the ocean floor sands that, while difficult to extract, would still be a whole lot simpler than going for it on the Moon. Problem is, how do you get a nuclear fusion reactor going in such a way that its net output is larger than your total input, including for He-3 extraction. Now, once we have ITER we might be a bit closer to it, but that's D-T (2nd gen) not 3rd gen He-3. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:29 | comment | added | Calvin | No source at all, just in my experience that's been the unspoken direction for lunar utilization. Orbital solar is always a considering, but just from a grammar perspective I've never considered that to be a lunar utilization. EDIT: There's also always the possibility of science bases, but that's (totally subjective) not the impression I've gotten from JAXA. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:25 | comment | added | TildalWave | Do you have any sources that JAXA will be looking for He-3? I heard a completely different explanation similar to this (but on the Moon, of course): spectrum.ieee.org/green-tech/solar/… Tho they likely culled most of such wild plans by now that people moved on from the Fukushima disaster. Kinda like Russians started talking of the need for planetary defense after the Chelyabinsk, and now barely anyone remembers any of it. | |
| Aug 8, 2014 at 18:16 | history | answered | Calvin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |