Just when you think the possible sources of Infinite Energy to allow Infinite Miles of Happy Motoring and Infinitely large Data Centers exchanging an infinite amount of information about the infinitely large population have been exhausted, the folks at the Dept of Energy Hopium Technology have come up with another doozy.

According to this article Helium-3, an isotope of the inert gas that features an extra proton in the nucleus is available in so much quantity on the Moon that it is "infinite".  Since the Moon is finite in size that's obviously untrue, but let's go with "infinite" meaning for this propaganda writer, "so much that for all practical purposes we won't run short of energy for 1000 years".

Now, what they have NOT explained is HOW, even if you could economically mine the moon for He-3 and ship it back to earth, do they intend to get this not infinite but at least very large amount of energy from the HE-3?  Are they talking a Fission of the He-3 into 2 Hydrogen atoms, or a Fusion of 2 of them into an atom of Beryllium?  The first seems more likely, since we still can't fuse Hydrogen to make Helium, and fusing Helium to make Beryllium takes more energy than that.

Can you start and control a He-3 chain reaction in a fission reactor and how efficiently do you capture this energy?  I don't know of any designs for using He-3 as fissionable fuel for reactors, but I suppose it's possible to build them.  Is He-3 on the moon there in so much quantity that it beats out Uranium and Thorium here on earth, not to mention Plutonium you can make in Breeder reactors and use for fuel too?

Finally, WTF do TPTB feel it necessary to bombard us literally on a daily basis with outrageous new claims of infinite energy sources ready for harvesting?  Is their terror of running out of jet fuel really that great?  I'm even more curious to know if Bezos or Musk will actually try sending rockets to the Moon to go mine this stuff?  Will somebody convince Goldman to underwrite some corporate bonds for say $100B at 10% interest to finance mining He-3 from the Moon?  Will Hedge Fund Managers and Pension funds buy these bonds as part of a balanced portfolio?

https://www.ecoticias.com/en/energy-moon-helium-3/1466/

The ultimate and infinite energy, finally found: 400 000 kilometers away and will be extracted

RE