Russia has staked out plans to recapture its Soviet-era space-race glory and start mining the Moon for a promising energy resource that scientists say could meet the Earth's power needs for more than a thousand years.
Nikolai Sevastyanov, head of Russia's giant Energia Space Corporation, has unveiled plans to build a permanent base on the Moon within a decade and to start mining the planet for helium 3, a sought-after isotope, by 2020.
The idea would be to use helium 3 to power thermo-nuclear power stations, harnessing its potency to achieve nuclear fusion.
Russia, China, the US . . . This is going to be some show.
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I suppose the European Union will join the bandwagon...
Pie-in-the-sky bullshit to keep the masses distracted.
The energy consumption involved just in getting everything set up would push us so far down the depletion side of the Hubbert Curve that I doubt there'd be any remaining infrastructure to make use of it (having been cannibalized as various populations seek to sustain themselves)...
I suppose the EU will collapse under its weight soon. Remember what happened to Yugoslavia.