Has been found on the moon.
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"If we could land ... on the moon, fill the cargo with canisters of helium-3 mined from the surface and bring the shuttle back to Earth," he said, "that cargo would supply the entire electrical power needs of the United States for an entire year."
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John Santarius, a professor at the university's Fusion Technology Institute, said helium-3 provides 1 million times more energy per pound than a ton of coal. *emphasis added
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And that's just one shuttle bay of this stuff. Sounds easy to extract, too. Just heat the lunar dust to 700° and it gives up the helium-3 along with oxygen and hydrogen which can be siphoned off for use as water.
Gee, if the moon has all this stuff, I wonder what we are going to find on Mars? Is it too late to change my mind about not sending a manned mission there??
Hopefully, there aren't any caribou on the moon
