Solar belt around the moon planned by Japanese engineers

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140. Thanks for raising an important point.

I went through that exercise back in the very few weeks that fusion power seemed like a panacea.

In the long run, would oodles of energy help us or hurt us? Don't we wind up abusing all the powers we're given?

I was very disappointed when computer-controlled fuel injection came along just in time to save the internal combustion engine's bacon. If not for that emission reduction, we'd surely have had viable auto batteries long ago, and cars built to last 500 years. But of course the manufacturers don't want 500-year cars. That's why they give us complicated internal-combustion hybrids with oodles of wearing parts instead. Why don't we have an external combustion steam or gas turbine hybrid? The thing that killed steam and gas turbines was that drivers had to wait 30 seconds to let the vehicle warm up before they could drive away. In a hybrid system you could drive on batteries while the engine warmed up.