There is a resource sitting on the surface of the moon that could solve the world’s energy crisis almost overnight. It produces no radioactive waste, no carbon emissions, and cannot cause a meltdown.
It is called Helium-3.
For billions of years the moon has had no atmosphere to deflect the solar wind, so Helium-3 carried by that wind has built up across the entire lunar surface.
Scientists estimate the moon holds up to a million metric tons of it. On Earth it is almost completely nonexistent, currently selling for around $3 billion per ton.
A single Space Shuttle cargo bay worth of it could power the entire United States for a full year.
China is not hiding its intentions. Its chief lunar scientist has publicly stated that the moon’s Helium-3 could solve humanity’s energy needs for 10,000 years. China has already returned lunar soil samples to Earth and is actively studying them for Helium-3 content.
The United States is responding. In 2025 the Department of Energy made the first ever government purchase of an extraterrestrial resource, three liters of lunar Helium-3. A startup backed by former NASA astronauts has announced plans to begin commercial lunar mining by 2030.
The 1967 Outer Space Treaty bans countries from owning the moon. It says almost nothing about mining it.
The country that gets there first and starts extracting first will control the most valuable resource in human history. The moon is not just a rock in the sky. It is the Persian Gulf of the 21st century.
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