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Developing Mars industry and economy will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Earth. Necessity is the mother of invention.
by vardump 4y ago
Developing Mars industry and economy will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Earth.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
- eesmith 4y agoDeveloping a negative carbon emission industry and economy will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Earth. Which is cheaper? Which has higher certainty?
- _Microft 4y agoYou might be happy to hear that the author of the article founded a company (Terraform Industries) that is working on making carbon sequestration and synthetic fuels economically viable.
- ncmncm 4y agoMoney put into synthetic hydrocarbon production is extremely premature when we don't have enough renewable generating capacity yet to displace current CO2 emissions.
- zamadatix 4y agoI'd word it as "Developing negative carbon emission industry and economy on Earth will almost certainly lead to better ways of doing things on the Mars" as in the two questions aren't different enough to phrase them as a "this one" or "that one". Solving one without solving at least a significant portion of the other doesn't seem possible and I don't see the desire for either shrinking as time goes on.
- JumpCrisscross 4y ago> Which has higher certainty? This one’s easy: Mars. There is limited evidence large populations are willing to incur pain to solve the climate crisis. To the degree money is spent, it’s politicised and inefficient. The necessity of survival simply isn’t there here. It would be on Mars.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt would help, some, for it to be actually possible for a Mars colony to exist, and then maybe to survive at all. But there is thus far no reason to expect that. Certainly not by relying on Starship/Superheavy, which is so far from adequate it is comical. Starship might be adequate to keep a small moon base operating. That would be an achievement.