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To: TimF who wrote (124254)9/19/2000 2:36:35 PM
From: Daniel Schuh  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1580052
 
Er, since I was giving pgerassi a hard time about liquid H2 in motor vehicles yesterday, I got to raise a flag on that one. All the stuff with robotic cryogenic fuel dispensers and voluminous other new infrastructure sounds incredibly practical and economical compared to doing anything large scale in space. It's cool and everything, but it costs a ton, and space is not at all a good human habitat. The long term astronauts from Mir all come back to earth quite sick. The human body is a bit maladaptive in 0g.

Fusion power has been 10 years away for about 50 years, I think. That's leaving out the clean and cheap part, too.

Cheers, Dan.