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31 sats \ 4 replies \ @Cje95 16 Jan \ on: Do you think China will build "Three Gorges Dam In Space" by 2028? oracle
Unless China has unlocked some critical electrical capabilities this isnt possible at least not now. There are electric transmission losses that prevent it as it currently stands. My Committee had a group pitch us this and it would have cost something like $400 billion at the most basic level and then over $1 trillion in the complete version.
A huge issue with both was the sheer cost to lift everything to space, maintaining, and most importantly repairing the station/power generator thing. It is going to get pummeled by micrometeorites and not only rapidly degrade but also its just physically hard to replace parts once you put them into place.
I recall this idea coming up during the Bush administration and all of those issues coming up then.
I'm sure we'll have something like this eventually (and probably before it actually makes sense), but I don't think we're particularly close to it at the moment.
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Would you agree that this piece of news is rather more inflated because of Asimov's idea than the actual plans if there are any?
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I don't know. That piece was new to me. I've read a lot of Asimov, but not that one.
I think it's a pretty natural idea that puts together a few different things that already exist.
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Well, this should be sent to these media publications who are just repeating these plans. It might well open their eyes. But the media doesn't care, all it cares is selling what is easily sold.
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