Seattle Startup Attempts to Simulate 15,000 Years of Solar Wind in Lab

A Seattle-based company is working on technology to replicate the effects of 15,000 years of solar wind exposure in just four hours under laboratory conditions. The effort is driven by the challenges of resource scarcity on the Moon, where solar wind has deposited valuable elements like helium-3 into lunar soil over millennia. Reproducing this process artificially on Earth could reduce dependence on costly and complex lunar mining operations. The technology aims to accelerate research into space resources by simulating conditions that would otherwise take thousands of years to occur naturally.