Believe it or not, the moon is the source of new energy

ArabiaWeather.com- Khitam Amer- The moon is a beautiful sight that enchants people, for its magnificence, beauty, and brilliance. With the great scientific progress and the landing of astronauts on its surface, it has become the focus of attention of the countries of the world because of its great wealth represented in the depths of its soil containing helium-3 gas that is capable of The production of huge amounts of energy is sufficient for humanity for many decades.

Research conducted on rocks and soil, and through what the well-known Apollo astronauts brought between 1969 and 1972, showed that they contained helium-3 gas, while experts at the Johnson Space Research Center in the US state of Houston estimated that the moon contained one million tons of this gas, capable of The production of energy sufficient for the United States of America for a thousand years, which constituted a strong incentive for the leading countries in the field of space exploration, such as America, Russia, China, as well as Japan, India and Germany, to prepare their future projects to conquer the moon and build permanent colonies on it.

It is rare for the helium-3 element to exist on the surface of the earth, as it is produced with difficulty through nuclear reactions, but it is present in a large number in the solar wind, but the outer layers of the earth’s atmosphere prevent it from reaching it.

On the other hand, because the moon is almost devoid of an atmosphere that impedes the arrival of this gas to its surface, abundant amounts of this gas have accumulated on its surface and in its soil over the years, as every million tons of moon dust contains approximately seventy tons of helium-3 gas.

At a time when scientific calculations indicate that every pound of helium-3 gas is capable of providing electric energy a million times more than the energy produced by a ton of coal, which makes obtaining this gas a great treasure.

Theoretical studies dating back to 1985 show that the use of helium-3 as a nuclear fusion fuel will be one of the future solutions for the production of clean energy that is harmless to humans and the environment.

According to the professor of nuclear engineering and director of the Institute of Nuclear Fusion Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, American researcher Gerald Kolesinski, helium-3 gas can be extracted from the lunar soil by heating the depths of its soil and rocks to seven hundred degrees Celsius by solar radiation falling on the moon, where the gas will come out from Soil to be collected in special containers with the aim of transferring it to the ground.