About 45% of the lunar soil and rocks is made up of oxygen
A pleasant surprise, thats exactly the same percentage as we have in our Earths rocks.
I know that NASA detected some Oxygen in the Moon rocks that were brought back. But its percentage amount was never mentioned as far as I am aware.
Apparently last, year Hubble looked at the Moon in Ultraviolat, and detected these oxygenated rocks, called 'Ilmenite'.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/10/1019_051019_moon_oxygen.html

The Moon is full of surprises, from the discovery of ice in a sunless Crater at our Moons South pole by the Lunar probe "Clemantine" back in 1994.

http://www-cgi.cnn.com/TECH/9612/02/moon.life/index.html

To the discovery of vast fields of Helium III, which if ever brought back to Earth, would be a source of power for a thousand years or more. - (Earth does not have any Helium III).

http://www.direct.ca/trinity/helium3.htm

No wonder the 3, or is it 4 now (Japan?), Powers are preparing to land on the moon.

How will Helium3 be a source of power? Its not radio active

Thank You
Blobby2

1 million metric tonnes of He3, reacted with deuterium, would generate about 20,000 terrawatt-years of thermal energy. The units alone are awesome: a terrawatt-year is one trillion (10 to 12th power) watt-years. To put this into perspective, one 100-watt light bulb will use 100 watt-years of energy in one year.

That's about 10 times the energy we could get from mining all the fossil fuels on Earth, without the smog and acid rain. If we torched all our uranium in liquid metal fast breeder reactors, we could generate about half this much energy, and have some interesting times storing the waste.


Helium 3 as a energy source

That's interesting, but there's a lot of details to work out. On Earth, we convert the energy released by fission into heat, which turns turbines, which produces electricity. Fission plants need lots of water, both for producing steam and for cooling things down. I imagine a fusion reaction might go through a similar process.