The moon, a place to experiment.

In 1986, scientists from the Institute of Fusion Technology at the University of Wisconsin estimated that the moon's salary contained a million tons of helium 3 and that this material could be used in nuclear fusion. According to the study, it would be profitable to exploit this resource since the energy produced would be 250 times greater than that needed to extract helium 3 from the moon and transport it to Earth.

The problem is that helium 3, although it offers some advantages in terms of fusion with deuterium, (Deuterium is an isotope of hydrogen) is an option that has been discarded lately, in nuclear fusion, which is joining two atoms what is pursued the dream ideal would be to join two hydrogen atoms like the sun does, you get a helium atom and you get a lot of energy, like the sun does.

The problem is that it doesn't work well with hydrogen, we have to use isotopes of hydrogen, there are variants and sometimes you have to use helium 3, it's one of the options that have been put forward, combining an isotope of hydrogen with another of helium and thus have fusion, in this cooking recipe the perfect plan of two hydrogen atoms must be replaced by other variants.

At least for the moment it is not that simple, I hope that in the future it can be done with normal hydrogen and not go around resorting to isotopes, but for now that problem is there, the question is that the option continued through helium 3 to obtain fusion nuclear or lately it has been ruled out because it caused many problems, apparently a very high temperature was needed and the process was much slower compared to other paths using other types of isotopes, which is why lately it has been discarded as one of the future lunar resources. But on the moon there may be others, not only rare earth resources or metals that are scarce on earth, there is also a resource on the moon that is not talked about much, but that may be essential in future technology and that is the low gravity and the absence of atmosphere vacuum obtaining products, alloys, molecules in conditions of zero gravity or very low gravity we cannot do on earth.

It can be done and it is possible to obtain products and molecules that can be fundamental in technological development or in the creation of medicines, so the industry, the lunar industry to create this type of special substance can be one of the economic outlets in the future. of the exploitation of the moon and its resources, not only of raw materials, let's not think of the moon only as a gigantic mine, it can also be a gigantic and wonderful factory of products that we cannot obtain here on earth.

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