I'm not arguing that, I'm kewl with fission (of which I think the dangers are criminally overrated by eco-fascists). It's just that the only reliable and profitable way of using fusion over the last fifty years has been the helium-3 process. All the rest is perpetually "twenty years away".

There is hardly any helium-3 on Earth, but there should be plenty on the Moon. Enough in fact -- provided the estimates are not wildly off -- to make stripmining the lunar surface for Helium-3 more than economical.

So, and this was basically my point, the Moon is not worthless, but potentially the opposite. And not because of some wild "We must colonize the universe" ideology, but because it could become the source for our energy needs.