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It's crazy to think through the ramifications of fusion power. A Sahara irrigated with desalinated water. Mining trash to get the metals out. Sequestering CO2.
by zachrose 12y ago
It's crazy to think through the ramifications of fusion power. A Sahara irrigated with desalinated water. Mining trash to get the metals out. Sequestering CO2. Turning the entire globe into a climate-controlled mall.
- p1mrx 12y agoI would bet on desalination becoming practical using solar power, before fusion is cheap enough to compete. The day/night cycle isn't a problem for desalination because fresh water is easy to store, and the places that most need water tend not to be cloudy. I think the killer app for fusion is large vehicles: cargo ships, spacecraft, helicopter islands, etc.
- onnoonno 12y agoEveryone is content to happy, well-fed, in one big climate-controlled mall. Awesome utopia.
- lotsofmangos 12y agoOne problem to watch out for if you have effectively unlimited power, is that global warming would no longer be an indirect effect of stuff like CO2, but just a direct result of not caring about efficiency any more.
- zachrose 12y agoCan't you just crank up the AC and blast the heat into space somehow?