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Towing the converter outside the environment is something I can get behind.
by markdown 4y ago
Towing the converter outside the environment is something I can get behind.
- gridspy 4y agoI always liked how NASA realised in 1970 that the moon is a sandpit of fusion-converter material. It's such an awesome reason to build houses above the sky.
- ncmncm 4y agoIt would take far more energy to extract the 3He from the moon's crust than you could get fusing it.
- gridspy 4y agoThe moon is high in silicon. You can make solar panels from mostly moon dust. Then build solar panels in orbit which are 4x the power generation of sea level panels and they experience less shading.
- ncmncm 4y agoTrue enough. But by the time that could be fielded, our energy problems will already have been solved, or civilization will have collapsed.
- gridspy 4y agoI agree with you relating to our existing energy problems. However I expect that humanity will be attempting to use as much energy as it can possibly create for at least the next 1,000 years. I hope we have a bright future growing into space, creating a Dyson ring, orbital habitats, etc. Replacing our current use of fossil fuels has plenty of strong ground-alternatives. I like the idea of Thorium salt reactors for base load, hydro stored energy and lots of local wind and solar.
- gridspy 4y agoI support moving all the smoking buildings outside the environment also. Then many of them can use the fusion reactor directly, with the aid of mirrors and lenses.
- YoshiRulz 4y agoI hear there's nothing out there but sea, birds, and fish. No environment in sight. (for the uninitiated: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM)