Studio · Helium-3
Helium-3 in 40 seconds
Our first little explainer. A fuel sitting on the Moon, why it's so rare here, and why people are already planning to go and get it.
No. 06We like making stuff about stuff we think is cool. This time it's helium-3, and it's the first of the little explainers we want to make.
What it covers
There's a fuel sitting on the Moon that could change everything. The Sun has been blasting helium-3 across space for billions of years, and the Moon has been quietly collecting it in its dust.
Here on Earth it's incredibly rare. Right now it's used to cool quantum computers to almost absolute zero. The big dream is fusion: clean energy with far less radioactive waste. The catch is that we'd have to go to the Moon to get it, and people are already planning to.
How we made it
Everything you see was built in code and timed to the narration, shot by shot. No stock footage.
The first version went up on 2 October with Corey's own voice, recorded on his phone. We wanted cleaner sound, so on 6 October we remade it with his AI voice clone: the same story and pictures, plus a pointer at the end to our full 8-minute video on helium-3.
The music is "Infinite Perspective" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0.
If there's something you think is cool and want 40 seconds on, tell us. We'd like to make more of these.
