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Whether or not fusion is possible (it seems like it is, just incredibly difficult and meticulous, unless the MIT-ARC project works out). There is always the ev
by benjaminjackman 8y ago
Whether or not fusion is possible (it seems like it is, just incredibly difficult and meticulous, unless the MIT-ARC project works out).
There is always the eventual option to harvest solar energy in space The primary limiting factor at the moment is obviously the insane price of rocketing stuff into space.
Perhaps even before that solar power could be harvested in the upper atmosphere on massive scale by being tethered to balloons, it might even have the benefit of counter-acting some of the effects of global heating.
- tremon 8y agoThe primary limiting factor at the moment is obviously the insane price of rocketing stuff into space. The people who are opposed to nuclear power because of the military proliferation risk might have something to say about the capability to transmit large amounts of power from space to the surface of this planet.
- bilbo0s 8y agoAnd you'd have to add to that objection the people who oppose nuclear power because of the costs. Those people would definitely be opposed to these ideas barring some new technological development that made space-based infrastructure several orders of magnitude less expensive.