While at work today I was telling a friend of mine about the space elevator that is trying to be made a reality in as little as eight years.

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We then went on to discuss the Helium problem, seeming to have a shortage of this Noble Gas.

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This friend of mine happen to be on Pravda reading and I started to scan the articles to see if I could find the space elevator or something about it. I did! I started to read through it and to my amazement, it said this,

The space elevator, scientists say, will help people build manned bases on the Earth's natural satellite and organize the extraction of helium-3 there - a raw material that will solve global problems of the shortage of energy resources, writes EnergySafe. According to most pessimistic estimates, the reserves of helium-3 on the Moon will be enough for Earth's population for at least 1,000 years.

Link to the full article is here   http://english.pravda.ru/science/tech/28-08-2012/122003-elevator_mo...