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There's a resource in lunar soil so valuable it could ignite a 21st-century gold rush. At a reported value of $20 million per kilogram, this material is roughly 150 times more valuable than gold due to its potential use in fusion power plants , cooling for quantum computers , and its current use in detecting attempted smuggling of nuclear materials for national security purposes.

Seattle-based startup Interlune is one of a handful of space resource extraction companies aiming to harness this material to establish a lunar economy. It has designed a prototype to extract it from the moon's surface and a plan to bring it home.

Interlune's render of its Helium-3 harvesting system. Interlune

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