{"id":7035,"date":"2015-08-02T19:58:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-02T19:58:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/?p=7035"},"modified":"2015-08-08T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T12:37:23","slug":"a-helium-3-and-oil-timeline-is-there-a-conspiracy-between-the-u-s-government-and-the-fossil-fuels-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/a-helium-3-and-oil-timeline-is-there-a-conspiracy-between-the-u-s-government-and-the-fossil-fuels-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Helium-3 and Oil Timeline: Is There a Conspiracy Between the U.S. Government and the Fossil Fuels Industry?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TSTF_ebook\"While doing research for my book<\/a> A Truth Stranger Than Fiction<\/em>, I found a lot of material on helium-3 and oil, some of which suggested the existence of a conspiracy between the U.S. government and the fossil fuels industry to suppress development of helium-3 and moon mining so that the resources in the Bakken Formation might be exploited.<\/p>\n

Rather than connect the dots for you, what follows below is a simple list of important dates and events related to domestic oil production, the Bakken Formation, helium-3, moon mining and NASA. I present these dates and events for your consideration, along with some primary sources, so you can decide for yourself whether or not such a conspiracy exists.<\/p>\n

For more information on helium-3, fossil fuels, moon mining and related topics, I suggest you visit a page I’ve set up with\u00a0all<\/em> of the primary sources I consulted while writing my book.<\/strong> Here is the page: “Helium-3: Further Reading<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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A\u00a0Helium-3 and Oil Timeline:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – Discovery of the Bakken Formation<\/a>: an oil- and natural gas-rich shale deposit beneath North Dakota, Eastern Montana, and parts of Southern Canada.<\/p>\n

1956<\/strong> – M. King Hubbert posits his \u201cPeak Oil<\/a>\u201d theory.<\/p>\n

1969<\/strong> – The Apollo 11 mission returns from the Moon with rock and soil samples that show the\u00a0existence of helium-3 on the Moon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

1970<\/strong>\u00a0– The date posited by \u201cPeak Oil\u201d theorists for peak oil production; according to Hubbert, production will fall off after this date.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – Moon soil samples\u00a0brought back from\u00a0the final U.S. manned mission (Apollo 17) show conclusively<\/a> the existence of helium-3.<\/p>\n

1973-74<\/strong> – OPEC oil embargo\/crisis in U.S.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – An article<\/a> in the MIT Technology Review<\/em> states\u00a0that “fusion as it is now being developed will almost certainly be too expensive and unreliable for commercial use.”<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> –\u00a0The University of Wisconsin-Madison Fusion Technology Institute is denied\u00a0federal funding for helium-3 fusion research.<\/p>\n

\"fracking-infographic\"<\/a>1995<\/strong> – The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) estimates that the Bakken Formation holds approximately 151 million barrels of oil.<\/p>\n

2004<\/strong>\u00a0– President G.W. Bush announces plans<\/a> for return to the Moon and for Moon colonization.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong> – NASA details plans<\/a> for a Moon colonization program<\/a>.<\/p>\n

2006<\/strong> \u00a0– The University of Wisconsin Fusion Technology Institute reports that helium-3 fusion research is progressing<\/a> and that helium-3 from the moon would be a viable energy source.<\/p>\n

2007<\/strong> – An article<\/a> in the MIT Technology Review<\/em> (24 years after the 1983 article) states, “Lab experiments suggest that future fusion reactors could use helium-3 gathered from the Moon.”<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong> – The USGS releases a report<\/a> stating that the Bakken Formation contains 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of oil (this is 25 times the amount estimated in 1995).<\/p>\n

2008<\/strong> – U.S. average gasoline prices hit their highest point<\/a>: $4.11\/gallon.<\/p>\n

\"NASA-Logo-Large\"2010<\/strong> – President Obama unveils a new plan for NASA<\/a> and space exploration that does NOT include returning to the moon.<\/p>\n

2013<\/strong> –\u00a0The USGS releases yet\u00a0another new estimate<\/a> stating that the Bakken Formation contains 7.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong> –\u00a0The PR website for the Bakken Formation, Bakken.com, publishes an article<\/a> titled, \u201cMoon Mining: Foolishness or the Future of Energy?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While doing research for my book A Truth Stranger Than Fiction, I found a lot of material on helium-3 and oil, some of which suggested the existence of a conspiracy between the U.S. government and the fossil fuels industry to suppress development of helium-3 and moon mining so that the resources in the Bakken Formation … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[145,30,178,5,177,11],"tags":[192,191,181,180,195,94,196,98,188,179,193,183,185,184,182,96,187,155,194,189,190,186],"class_list":["post-7035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-truth-stranger-than-fiction","category-chris-orcutt-books","category-helium-3","category-helpfulsites","category-research","category-dakota-stevens-mysteries-series","tag-a-truth-stranger-than-fiction","tag-alternative-energy","tag-bakken","tag-bakken-formation","tag-book","tag-chris-orcutt","tag-coast-to-coast-am","tag-dakota-stevens","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-helium-3","tag-hubberts-peak","tag-moon","tag-moon-colonization","tag-moon-mining","tag-nasa","tag-novelist","tag-oil","tag-orcutt","tag-peak-oil","tag-space","tag-space-exploration","tag-usgs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7035"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7086,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7035\/revisions\/7086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orcutt.net\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}