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Originally Posted by redpoint5
What is the refining process?
If all of a sudden we're mining massive quantities of H-3, that would increase supply, which should pull the price down. How much electricity can we get from an ounce of H-3? It would have to compete with current 6 cents per kWh rates. Moon power doesn't sound cheap to me.
Did anyone watch Moon yet?
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The extraction process sounds simple--you heat lunar dust to 600 C to extract it. One shuttle load (25 metric tons) could power the United States for a year. I'm not sure what that would do to our current electricity rates.
https://www.explainingthefuture.com/helium3.html
I still need to check out that movie
