Chen Mo's announcement that Helium-3 had been successfully harvested from the moon was no less than a magnitude-ten earthquake. The resulting tsunami swept across the global technology, energy, and economic sectors.
According to lunar exploration data, the moon held more than one million tons of Helium-3. Just 100 tons of Helium-3 undergoing Controlled Fusion could supply the entire world's energy needs for a year. The moon's Helium-3 reserves were enough to sustain humanity for ten thousand years.
Now that Chen Mo's technology had successfully harvested Helium-3, the final shortcoming preventing the large-scale application of Controlled Nuclear Fusion Technology had been resolved. Widespread adoption was unstoppable.
This news triggered a massive tsunami across the global economic world.
The moment the news broke, panic erupted in the coal market. Coal futures, already languishing at rock bottom, began another vertical plunge, leaving the coal market in ruins.
Coal prices hit their lowest point in half a century. Several small countries that depended heavily on coal exports to sustain their domestic economies were hit by the price collapse, their economies instantly plunging to the bottom as unemployment rates reached historic highs.
Unemployed coal miners in some small countries began staging large-scale protests, denouncing Ant Army Group's development of Controlled Nuclear Fusion Technology.
With the news of the successful Helium-3 development, Chen Mo appeared on the cover of Time Magazine holding that photograph of Helium-3. He was named Person of the Year, marking his seventh Time Magazine cover appearance.
The latest Forbes Global Power List was updated soon afterward. Chen Mo ranked fourth, behind the leaders of the world's three major powers, and was named the world's most influential and powerful entrepreneur and scientist.
It was the first time a non-political entrepreneur had achieved such a high ranking on the global power list.
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