Re: How to get Post-Scarcity?

On Jun 26, 3:09 pm, Luke Campbell <lwc...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jun 26, 11:02 am, Remus Shepherd <re...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

   We can probably set up giant algae/bacteria vat farms, and tweak the
bugs to produce any kind of organic stuff we need.  But rare elements are
still rare.  The only way to get enough of these elements, from what I can
see, is to either mine asteroids (and get lucky) or postulate some kind of
transmutation technology.  Could we supplement our solar power grid with
fusion plants capable of ingesting (and thus producing) anything up to iron?

I could suspend my disbelief of nuclear transmutation for the sake of
a good story, but it really isn't plausible with any foreseeable
technology.

What about a fusion torch? Drop some trash into the hopper and the
fusion torch atomizes it and you get a cloud of really hot atoms on
the other side.

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