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Chinese Lunar mining is "possible," says futurologist

August 5, 2014 Last updated at 21:08 BST clock

Chinese authorities are considering mining a rare material on the surface of the moon, has been reported.

Chinese scientists leading the project, the production of helium-3, a rare isotope, non-radioactive, could the energy crisis in the world to solve "10,000 years."

Christopher Barnatt, a futurist at the University of Nottingham, told BBC Radio 5 Live drive could be the practice "possible," "decades".