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Rough-Lavishness-401 OP t1_j25vy5l wrote

Reply to comment by Repulsive-Lake1753 in Will Nuclear Fusion Dump Clean Energy? by Rough-Lavishness-401

That's really cool actually. Do you know if we can recreate it here, and if so, do we avoid it because of cost?

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Repulsive-Lake1753 t1_j25wnlr wrote

It doesn't exist naturally on earth, the sun creates it but it bounces off the atmosphere. So it's just collecting on the surface of the moon, it's something ridiculous like enough possible fuel in just the sea of tranquility to power the US at current rates for hundreds of years.

When I first read about it, the story was that it was discovered as a by-product of servicing nuclear weapons and the physicists were like "man, wish we had more of this" and then like 20 years later the nuclear physicists and the astrophysicists were chatting, the nuclear bros brought it up and the space bros were like "that shit is literally just all over the moon". Not sure if true but funny story.

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Rough-Lavishness-401 OP t1_j260c0e wrote

Yh very funny if true ahahah

And although we can't bring it here (well at least for now who knows in 50 to 100 years) we already have an energy source for a moon colonie

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