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Lunar Helium-3 Thermal Extraction (2D)

2D canvas model of lunar regolith baking: watch solar-wind-implanted helium-3 diffuse out of grains as a live-integrated Arrhenius release-rate ODE — tune temperature, cycle duration and batch mass and read off yield, energy cost and a live yield-vs-time curve.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version

Details

CategorySpace & Astronomy

RenderingCanvas 2D

DifficultyModerate

Target FPS60

ControlsSliders set the bake temperature (300-900 °C), heating cycle duration (0.25-48 h) and regolith batch mass (100-5000 kg); a Run Extraction Cycle button plays a compressed 12-second animation of the bake, live-integrating the Arrhenius release-rate ODE with a yield-vs-time chart and readouts for released fraction, extracted mass, heating energy, yield/energy and energy/yield.

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Billions of years of solar-wind bombardment have implanted trace helium-3 a few tens of nanometres deep in every grain of lunar regolith — around 20 parts per billion by mass. This 2D canvas model tracks the one step that actually gets it back out: baking a mined batch while an Arrhenius-law release-rate ODE is numerically integrated frame by frame. Set a bake temperature, a cycle duration and a batch mass, then run the cycle and watch a bed of regolith grains heat up, a plume of escaping He-3 rise off them, and a live yield-vs-time chart trace the running integral — alongside readouts for released fraction, extracted mass, heating energy and both directions of the energy/yield tradeoff.

⚙ Under the hood

Heat a batch of solar-wind-implanted lunar regolith and watch helium-3 diffuse out of the grains according to a real Arrhenius diffusion law — tune bake temperature, cycle duration and batch mass and read off release fraction, extracted mass, heating energy and yield-per-energy.

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2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install