“If we could land the space shuttle on the moon, fill the cargo with canisters of helium-3 mined from the surface and bring the shuttle back to Earth, that cargo would supply the entire electrical power needs of the United States for an entire year,” he said.

Sounds *great* guys! If only you could A) land a space shuttle on the moon, B) extract the helium in that quantity C) PRODUCE NUCLEAR FUSION and D) sell the public on said NUCLEAR FUSION, we'd all be happy energy consumers forever.

Don't get me wrong, as a forward looking, yay-for-the-future, maybe someday, blue sky kinda thing, i'm all for it. But really, this article should have been titled "Moon potential source of helium-3, in case we ever get this fusion thing to work."

US: UW scientists want to mine moon energy | EnergyBulletin.net | Energy and Peak Oil News