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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by ta988 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:14PM (#25815657)
what about food? wouldnt that be the limiting factor?
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by baybal2 on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:18PM (#25815706)
If you can lift exatons of steel into space, you can probably already afford to solve the problem of direct synthesis of all, and every fertilizer, and probably nearly every other chemistry process just by throwing more energy at it.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by TeMPOraL on Sunday January 17, 2021 @05:36PM (#25815934)
Raw materials will be cheap in space, once we crack orbital manufacturing.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by vbezhenar on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:22AM (#25818802)
Plants convert light to food, you don't even need anything from science fiction.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday January 18, 2021 @01:58AM (#25819023)
You still need carbon; plants just extract it from the air using light.
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Re:Amazon Echo Flex Teardown: The Big Silicon by vbezhenar on Monday January 18, 2021 @02:17AM (#25819124)
Reuse CO2 and human waste. You need some income, as reuse can't be perfect, but I think it's manageable.
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