Re:Entrepreneur’s Letter to Obama: Give Americans a Great Ch...
by rayiner on Friday January 25, 2013 @03:51PM
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I think commercial viable replacement for oil is a great analogue to the moon mission.
1) It's a big goal, but one where the first steps are already being made, just as with the moon mission.
2) It has the potential to develop a ton of derivative technology that is widely applicable.
3) It has the potential to cement American's place for decades more, just like the rocket technology developed as a by-product of the space race did. It was hard to compete militarily with the country that could bomb you from space with ICBM's, and it'll be hard to compete economically that has a source of cheap, clean energy.
1) It's a big goal, but one where the first steps are already being made, just as with the moon mission.
2) It has the potential to develop a ton of derivative technology that is widely applicable.
3) It has the potential to cement American's place for decades more, just like the rocket technology developed as a by-product of the space race did. It was hard to compete militarily with the country that could bomb you from space with ICBM's, and it'll be hard to compete economically that has a source of cheap, clean energy.