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Can helium-3 create a gold rush on the moon?

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Tags: mining.lunar, technology, computing.quantum, isotopes, helium.3, commodities, materials, business, economics, coolants, solar system, moon, author.robin george andrews, source.scientificamerican, paywall
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-helium-3-create-a-gold-rush-on-the-moon/

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Title
Earth's next quantum revolution might depend on strip-mining the moon
Authors
Robin George Andrews
Word count
1957 words

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  1. Eji1700
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    For reference, last time looked into this you need to get to the area of $100 milllion per kilogram to profitably take moon rocks back to earth. These are "pick them up off the ground" rocks. Not...

    For reference, last time looked into this you need to get to the area of $100 milllion per kilogram to profitably take moon rocks back to earth.

    These are "pick them up off the ground" rocks. Not "extract H3 with machinery".

    So with that in mind, as always, I would say "no fucking way.". The amount of infrastructure we need to build first to even get near profitable is tremendous.