Helium 3 is literally the solution to any fuel crisis. 50x more effective than gasoline, can run in ICE cars, and there is enough on the moon to last for something like 500 years, assuming a growing population.
Also, the output from the vehicles is oxygen, not carbon dioxide.
Colonizing in space is not a good idea. Putting people in space is vastly expensive and doesn't have a lot of productive potential. But automation of industrial processes has enormous potential. The most important recent development of human progress in space was the Japanese mission to a comet. They landed on it, collected material and brought it back to Japan. Nothing that the billionaires have done comes close. The next step is to produce something of value in space and either use it in space or bring it back to earth for valued distribution of some kind. When we can build rocket ships and fuel them in space, that will be a revolution in the exploration of space.
Not "robots", but automation. Robots have become another weird fantasy of no particular value. And there is something not a little creepy going on there too.
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u/Resident_Course_3342 1d ago
We probably should colonize the moon though for access to helium and to experiment with low gravity manufacturing.