• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    10 hours ago

    Lol any year now!

    https://www.solarenspace.com/

    ha hahahahaahaaaa… oh boy… you techno utopians are funny. Maybe build a Space Elevator out of 3D printed AI Bitcoins and run a fusion reactor at the Lagrange point? Privately! On the Moon! To colonize Mars and mine the asteroids! Become a multi star species!

    OK, time will tell. How about I save you the wait: nothing will happen. At all.

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      9 hours ago

      you techno utopians are funny.

      I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago. And electric cars. And cloud computing, even.

      It was never going to be economically viable. Always ten years away from viability. Not competitive with whatever the industry leader was at the time.

      Really putting all your chips on “nothing ever changes”

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        9 hours ago

        To be fair there was and is huge push back against EVs, the US is setting itself back a couple centuries just to not admit it is viable.

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        7 hours ago

        I remember hearing this about solar power ten years ago

        Ten years ago Swanson’s law for solar photovoltaics was well established, not comparable.

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          5 hours ago

          “It’s only sunny during the day” is a line uttered ad nauseum by people who didn’t see lithium batteries falling through the same price drop.