Space energy sources.

We have three types of hydrogen, hydrogen one or protium which is the most common isotope of hydrogen that has a proton and no neutron in its nucleus, it is a proton and an electron and that's it, then there is hydrogen two or deuterium which contains a proton, a neutron in its nucleus and is also used in some recipes to achieve nuclear fusion and then tritium which is hydrogen 3 which contains a proton and two neutrons in its nucleus, this may be boring but we are talking about power, energy.

The nation that masters nuclear fusion in the end will be able to develop on a colossal scale, in a few decades if they look at our time, that nation that manages to make fusion reactors to feed its factories, its industries, its computers and its entire economic system, in a few decades they will be able to look at our time and it will seem to them that we were living in the Middle Ages, that is the level of the quantum leap that we will take the day we manage to master fusion energy, in addition nuclear fusion will open the doors to travel and space colonization, because hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe and others such as Helium 3, although they do not exist on Earth are expelled by the Sun for billions of years and we can find them on the Moon, Mercury and asteroids.

Helium 3 has some disadvantages, I thought it was a bit forgotten, what are the disadvantages of Helium 3? The first one is that it is very scarce on Earth, we would have to go to look for it on the Moon, although if we could use it to produce energy it would be profitable to extract helium 3 from the moon; the second disadvantage is the most important and is that the fusion of helium 3 with deuterium, which is the other element used in this recipe to obtain fusion energy, requires very high temperatures, about 600 million degrees and the third is that the fusion of deuterium with tritium, which is what is currently being used, is more efficient than helium 3, although deuterium unfortunately does leave radioactive waste.

Most nuclear waste cannot be recycled, unfortunately it has to be stored for a very long time and in very safe places, there are some methods to extract usable material from some waste but it is complex, the Chinese recently wanted to develop fusion reactors with less radioactive materials because uranium and plutonium are very annoying when it comes to producing waste but there are others that produce less radioactive waste and with a much lower level of reactivity or time of radioactive contamination.

At the moment, the recipe of deuterium and tritium wins, but thread 3 is not discarded gentleman Jarek Isaacman who is the candidate proposed by Donald Trump to lead NASA, is a 41 year old technological multimillionaire and is known because he has made some space missions among which stands out the first private space walk in September 2024, but before leading NASA he has to go through a series of protocols and formalities such as the control of the Senate.

Spaceinsider published a report on the statements and what Isaacman said in front of the senators, (source below) with it you will have an idea of where NASA is going to go and with NASA a lot of space agencies around the world because so far the situation is as follows, NASA captains the international program Artemis or Artemis, in it are among others the European Space Agency, the Japanese Space Agency and quite a few more the intention of this plan is to return to the Moon as a priority objective and establish a base or a sustainable presence on it.

They were also aiming to take the first woman and the first man of color to the lunar surface with all this political woke stuff, but this is going to change and they are going to leave it at “take humans back”, let them choose the best one which is I think the most sensible criteria, choose the most qualified person for that mission, whether it's a woman or a man of color whatever the most qualified person is would be my criteria, but I don't know how they're going to do it anyway they do aim to get humans back to the moon, which in principle also continues with the desire to create a permanent base on the lunar surface and a space station in orbit of the moon.

The modules of that station are already being built, the time when we would see humans walking on the Moon again would be the Artemis 3 mission in 2027 after fulfilling those lunar objectives, the space agencies of the Artemis program would turn their sights to Mars, where it is expected to send humans around 2033, although this date is much more ambiguous.

Jared Isaacman wants to get to the moon and Mars first; and sees Helium 3 as a source of space energy necessary for the conquest of space, and whoever dominates those energy sources that could be found out there would change the balance of power here on Earth and they do not want China to take it, fortunately Jared Isaacman knows what he is talking about.

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