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Of course we cannot rely on that, because photovoltaic facilities built by builder robots would take too much time to be of any relevance for the current crisis
by henearkr 4y ago
Of course we cannot rely on that, because photovoltaic facilities built by builder robots would take too much time to be of any relevance for the current crisis.
If it is launched now we may be able to use it a few decades later.
- ncmncm 4y agoIf it is launched now instead of building out renewables as fast as we possibly can, civilization collapses, and then it never happens.
- henearkr 4y agoNo the cost of launching seed robots would be small, nothing comparable with launching everything already ready to use. So it is not at all exclusive with being on schedule with the other, more important, projects. But I agree we must spend the most of our time and resources building solar (and wind) capacity, and storage.
- ncmncm 4y agoWe have no capacity at all to make "seed robots". Imagining seed robots and orbital gigaprojects distracts from the only thing we know can work.
- henearkr 4y agoYou are reasoning like if not 100% of engineers but "only" 99.999% work on the priority projects then those priority projects will fail. That's not the case. Moreover, there is always the need to continue to explore and diversify research and development. It allows to spread the risks (even if modestly, given that most resources go to the priority projects) and discover the necessary paths to go ahead (which is required even for the critical paths for the priority projects).