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Seems like the most valuable and obtainable natural resource in space is energy (solar or He3). Raw materials are a distant second, especially since almost all
by Tloewald 15y ago
Seems like the most valuable and obtainable natural resource in space is energy (solar or He3). Raw materials are a distant second, especially since almost all new technologies do more with less (how many physical gadgets does one smart phone replace?)
- comicjk 15y agoSpace may not be the best place to get raw materials (being, after all, mostly empty space) but you are mistaken about falling demand for materials. Commodity prices alone should tell you that demand is hitting the limits of current production. One smart phone may replace N others gadgets, but only 500 million people had the other gadgets, and _everyone_ wants a smartphone.
- Tloewald 15y agoI didn't say overall demand is falling. But per capita demand is, if not falling, decelerating -- your car is made of less metal, one gadget does what ten heavier gadgets used to, etc. otoh almost all of us are using more power.