Former astronaut, Apollo moonwalker, geologist and former Senator Harrison Schmitt has a modest plan to solve the world’s energy problems. All we need is $15 billion over 15 years and some fusion reactors that have yet to be invented. And we’ll need a moon base.
Schmitt’s idea isn’t novel--he thinks the U.S. should go back to the moon, this time to mine the surface for helium-3, an isotope of helium that is rare on earth but relatively bountiful on the moon. The Russians have been talking about mining helium-3 from the moon for years, but they’ve never put forth a viable plan. Schmitt thinks his, all things considered, is pretty realistic.
It is for a redesign...the government wants to build it's own launch facilities for a new vehicle...the new launch facilities will costs 20 times what we would pay with commercial launch facilities. Go figure!
residenttroll wrote: It is for a redesign...the government wants to build it's own launch facilities for a new vehicle...the new launch facilities will costs 20 times what we would pay with commercial launch facilities. Go figure!
But look at all the jobs that will be created!
"Whatever you are, be a good one." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Am I the only who groans every time I hear of another scheme to "solve" the world's energy crisis?
I groan because putting faith in magical science-fiction solutions just delays the day when we get real, get adult, and man up to the fact that there just ISN'T one?
Technology can do a lot of things, but I know of none that exists today that is a satisfactory substitute for fossil fuel. Yet almost everyone goes merrily on, confident that somehow technology will save us.
