Title page for E-project-031306-122626

Project Type IQP

Submission date 2006-03-13

Authors
Marsha Rebecca D'Souza, BIO
Diana M Otalvaro-Gutierrez, CM
Deep Arjun Singh, BE

URN E-project-031306-122626

Division Energy and Resources

Title Harvesting He-3 On The Moon

Advisors
Wilkes, John M., SS
Kazantzis, Nikolaos K., CM

Availability unrestricted

Abstract
The world is approaching an energy crisis, and it is critical to focus on an alternate long term energy source. Given the current urge to explore space and expand humanity's outreach, harvesting the energetically rich Helium-3 from the Moon's surface is an ideal, yet challenging, objective which is amply motivated by current energy economic realities. He-3 can be used in a nuclear fusion reactor to generate enormous energy outputs with negligible waste. In this project, we study the scientific breakthroughs required in space and fusion technologies to successfully harvest He-3 from the Moon. Additionally, a multitude of interests expressed on a global scale in lunar He-3 are examined and assessed based on a legal space framework, and socio-economic political scenarios are developed that would result from the aforementioned space venture.

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Project Type	IQP
Submission date	2006-03-13
Authors	Marsha Rebecca D'Souza, BIO Diana M Otalvaro-Gutierrez, CM Deep Arjun Singh, BE
URN	E-project-031306-122626
Division	Energy and Resources
Title	Harvesting He-3 On The Moon
Advisors	Wilkes, John M., SS Kazantzis, Nikolaos K., CM
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract The world is approaching an energy crisis, and it is critical to focus on an alternate long term energy source. Given the current urge to explore space and expand humanity's outreach, harvesting the energetically rich Helium-3 from the Moon's surface is an ideal, yet challenging, objective which is amply motivated by current energy economic realities. He-3 can be used in a nuclear fusion reactor to generate enormous energy outputs with negligible waste. In this project, we study the scientific breakthroughs required in space and fusion technologies to successfully harvest He-3 from the Moon. Additionally, a multitude of interests expressed on a global scale in lunar He-3 are examined and assessed based on a legal space framework, and socio-economic political scenarios are developed that would result from the aforementioned space venture.
Files	IQP.pdf