The Moon accumulates and superheats enormous quantities of lunar rock before delivering the lucrative cargo to Earth. This helium-3 may be gathered by heating the lunar dust to around 600 degrees Celsius and then transferring it to Earth to fuel a new generation of nuclear fusion power plants.

The manufacturing of a hundred kilograms (220 pounds) of helium-3 per year would require annual mining and processing of roughly two square kilometers (1.6 sq. mi.) of the lunar surface to a depth of three meters. In turn, such annual rate required hourly mining of an area of twenty-eight meters square and three meters deep coupled with the hourly processing of the finest fifty percent of the mined soil (around 2000 tons/hour or 4400 tons/hour) to extract its gases.