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Old Sep 17, 2007, 11:28 pm   #153 (permalink) (top)
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Since we don't currently have the technology to control fusion, there's no need at the present to go to the moon for helium-3. Instead of moon trips and useless (for the time being) lunar colonies, I think it's a much better idea to spend the money to develop an alternative to the chemical rockets that make space travel so expensive and slow. In addition, we could continue to develop the means to use fusion power.
Actually, we can build fusion plants. There's a prototype under construction in France already:

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