Invasion Moon

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/02/lunar-us-china-race-moon

Here is a brief:

“The US president's budget proposal, unveiled on Monday, lacked the funds to sustain NASA’s $81bn Constellation programmed, the spaceships and rockets designed to put humans back on the moon by 2020.”

I will be very brief in this matter. The old man in the sky pock marked and scarred, a target for daily impact is rich in resource and not just for its scenic view of Earth. Helium-3 (He-3) a light, non-radioactive isotope of helium with two protons and one neutron. This unique isotope, greatly sought after by nuclear researchers, is a very powerful source of energy.

25 tonnes of He3 would power the United States for 1 year at our current rate of energy consumption. Perceptively: that's the maximum Space Shuttle payload. That's about 10 times the energy we could get from mining all the fossil fuels on Earth, without the smog and acid rain.

The moon has an estimated 1 million metric tonnes of He3. That supply would generate about 20,000 terawatt-years of thermal energy and a terawatt-year is one trillion (10 to 12th power) watt-years. To put this into perspective, one 100-watt light bulb will use 100 watt-years of energy in one year. That is a lot of energy and let me tell you this, whom every controls the worlds energy supply… well you get the idea!