Chip Proser

Biography:

Charles Chip Prosner has had a celebrated career in Hollywood writing screenplays, the most well known being for the blockbuster military film, Top Gun. In addition he has been associated with many other science fiction and military movies and television programs. His attention to the details of how things work, which is essential to writing effective technically based drama, got him very interested in the state of the planet.

After researching several key developments such as global warming and peak oil Chip was moved to come up with some solutions to the dire road we are heading down if we don't start planning accordingly. He was written and directed a film, Gaia Selene which illustrates why space exploration is crucial to the economic and overall survival of humans on the edge of crisis here on Earth.

Past Shows:

	Colonizing the Moon
	Sunday September 25, 2005

Chip Proser, director of the documentary Gaia Selene, believes the Earth's future is in danger from climate change and energy crises. He maintains that colonizing the moon has the potential to mitigate these problems."We've got to find alternate forms of energy," Proser stated, explaining that all of our earthly resources combined will not be able to provide for the world's energy needs in 50 years. According to Proser, a viable and abundant energy source awaits us on the moon in the form of helium-3. Proser said moon dust, which contains helium-3, could be refined on the moon and brought back to power fusion reactors on Earth. He estimates it would take only 25 tons (one space shuttle full) of helium-3 to power the entire United States for one year.Proser also envisioned living in lava domes under the surface of the moon, building lunar solar stations that could transmit "clean" power via microwave energy back to Earth, and using space elevators to place people and obj ... More
Host: Art Bell