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  • one generation of renewable technology

    first off, if you build one generation that’s all you really need. metal is not like plastic or oil, you can always just melt it down and forge it again and again.

    Space mining is simply not a technology that exists currently

    It almost exists, I mean if you had a stupid amount of money you could right now hire space on a shuttle to move a tone of rocket fuel into orbit, with engines, robots and some parachutes send them out to an asteroid attached and just drop it into your backyard.

    We are talking 12 digits numbers in cost but if you grab say Hebe it has 1.39 x 10^12 tonnes of copper,

    4.5 billion

    Also I am not totally convinced of this number and want to find a better source to verify it. A lot of that article sounded like someone finding all the worst cases and adding them together.


  • First off Hornsdale is a terrible way to store power. EV(sometimes) need batteries because they are moving but there are much better and cheaper way to store energy like filling hydroelectric reservoirs for grid-scale systems.

    There is an easy answer, Space mining. Right now moving anything into orbit costs a fuck-tone. But when we are set up and start building things in orbit with minerals from astroids the costs drop down a lot.

    After that we have near infant amounts of every metal that we can just process in orbit and drop down.

    Other solutions are of course nuclear and more public infructuous like electric trains/trams that don’t need batteries and also are more efficient than cars/trucks