Re:World's First Deep-Sea Mining Venture to Launch in 2019
by krasin on Friday March 24, 2017 @07:17PM
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>they need to redirect asteroids into low earth orbit/the orbit of the colony. (And then expend a ton of energy to match orbits.)
Which basically means a sustainable colony must produce a ton of energy. Good news, producing energy in the space is actually cheaper than on Earth: you have a lot of solar, and nuclear is no longer a hazard.
Which basically means a sustainable colony must produce a ton of energy. Good news, producing energy in the space is actually cheaper than on Earth: you have a lot of solar, and nuclear is no longer a hazard.