Also, Tony Hawk is a goddamn excellent game!
Dare I say that it was a pro skater too!
Also, Tony Hawk is a goddamn excellent game!
Dare I say that it was a pro skater too!
I’d even say that it would make it “easier” to generate elements that are rare on earth for aplication purposes.
The first example already sort of feasible is production (and storage) of Helium.
And if we master (in the far, far future) both fusion and fission, then we can make almost any element “with ease”.
Basically we would be able to do what the alchemist dreamed and be able to “turn stones to gold”.
But nowadays, one of our “new gold” are rare earth like Neodymium for making magnets
And there are other elements that are even rarer and would have massive applications only if they were little bit more abundant than they are now
Now, again, that would be only true in a far, far future if (and a big if) we can truly master both fusion and fission (what I actually want to mean is that my comment is basically an “hallucination” similar to those on r/futurology)
I really feel the urge to correct the “infinite power part” because it hurts my soul as a (wannabe) physicist.
There exist no thing like infinite energy generator because energy is always conserved (well, there are some weird corner cases this isn’t true, but that is another lesson).
There are massive “transformators” of energy known as stars (like our Sun)which expel radiation in massive quantities thanks to its humongous size and will take billions of years until it grows into a giant red star and more billions of years until it explodes into a white dwarf (If I recall it correctly).
Billions or even “measly” millions of years is basically “infinite” for human lifespan, I agree.
But it still is finite.
Fusion won’t be “infinite” (billions nor even millions of years) because it will be basically a “microscopic sun”
We’d need something a bit bigger than Jupiter to get something closer to a “infinite-red-dwarf-energy-generator”.
And Jupiter’s diameter is around 10 or 11 Earths diameter, so it is something that is already a big massive for humans to do.
I’d say that photovoltaic cells for solar energy would be easier to make “infinite energy” becuse we are copying what the best “infinite energy users” (also known as plants) have been doing for millions of years.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/02/SolarSystem_OrdersOfMagnitude_Sun-Jupiter-Earth-Moon.jpg