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Lunar Helium-3 Thermal Extraction

Heat a batch of lunar regolith and watch solar-wind-implanted helium-3 diffuse out grain by grain, governed by a real Arrhenius diffusion law — tune temperature, cycle duration and batch mass and read off yield, energy cost and efficiency.

Space & Astronomy3DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 2D version

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 simulator models the one step that actually gets it back out: baking a mined batch until Arrhenius-law diffusion drives the gas out of the grains. Set a bake temperature, a cycle duration and a batch mass, then run the cycle and watch a bed of instanced regolith grains heat up while a plume of escaping He-3 streams off at a rate tied to the real diffusion derivative — with live readouts for released fraction, extracted mass, heating energy and yield-per-energy efficiency.

⚙ 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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3D · Three.js / WebGL renderer · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install