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Much of the North Sea was above water during the last Ice Age, and there was a land bridge between what is now the British Isles and the main continent of Europe.

thank god those days are over!

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Much of the North Sea was above water during the last Ice Age, and there was a land bridge between what is now the British Isles and the main continent of Europe.

During this ice age [/pedantry]

nfe wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Much of the North Sea was above water during the last Ice Age, and there was a land bridge between what is now the British Isles and the main continent of Europe.

During this ice age [/pedantry]

How to spot an archaeologist

Some are sort of getting it, some are not. Infinite power goes way beyond your house electricity bill being zero.

For food, it means infinite light and pulling nutrients straight from the air. Tht means you can have fields underground or in skyscrapers, whatever. Same for living space, plus you can now build in space with no consideration for launch costs.

For ecology, you can scrub greenhouse gasses from the air, heck you can use the CO2 to synthetize gasolene, which is a far more efficient battery than anything electric we currently have, and emissions don't matter because see above. And that's barely scratching the surface.

 lord_blackfang wrote:
Some are sort of getting it, some are not. Infinite power goes way beyond your house electricity bill being zero.

For food, it means infinite light and pulling nutrients straight from the air. Tht means you can have fields underground or in skyscrapers, whatever. Same for living space, plus you can now build in space with no consideration for launch costs.

For ecology, you can scrub greenhouse gasses from the air, heck you can use the CO2 to synthetize gasolene, which is a far more efficient battery than anything electric we currently have, and emissions don't matter because see above. And that's barely scratching the surface.

The problem, for me, is with the terminology. Infinite energy does not mean infinite food or living space, because that requires infinite mass and that's very, very different. If you say 'vastly increased' or 'unlimited in current practical terms' then fine - but cracking fusion doesn't catapult us into a post scarcity economy.

Well, fusion plants would make mass desalinazation more feasible. More fresh water means more agriculture if we figure out what to do with the salt.

 Techpriestsupport wrote:
Well, fusion plants would make mass desalinazation more feasible. More fresh water means more agriculture if we figure out what to do with the salt.

Given that water used in agriculture returns to the sea - either as water vapor forming rain, or as (ahem) discharged as digestive by-products, we could take what we don't use for regular salting purposes and dump it back into the sea.

Just... not all in one place. In an ideal world, you'd have every ship carry some and gradually dump it overboard, proportioned to the number of ships operating in the area.

Robo sex partners.

 BlaxicanX wrote:
Robo sex partners.