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A comment on Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power in the next 10 years?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power ... by cellis on Wednesday September 23, 2020 @03:19PM (#24570823)
It’s environmentally friendly to mine asteroids, so in a way, it will always be “cheaper” to pollute an unlivable rock rather than our only sustainable habitat.
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Re:Ask HN: Is hydrogen likely to be a major source of power ... by nsonha on Thursday September 24, 2020 @04:31AM (#24576557)
It'll take like 100 year to get to that point. That's 100 yeard of space engineering simply polluting Earth and then maybe another 100 years to break even?
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