I once heard a talk from the guy who invented the pacemaker in which he talked about many things, including nuclear fusion. He said that there was a particular isotope (I forget of which atom, it might have been Deuterium in a molecule with something else) that is fairly rare on earth because it is produced when the common molecule is hit by solar rays that are filtered by our atmosphere. There's a solid supply on the Moon, which may seem like a lost cause. However, he suggested that (if the technological hurdles in actually using fusion were ironed out) the cost of setting up the infrastructure for moon missions, sending men to the moon, mining, bringing the stuff back... would still result in less cost per energy unit than oil. And that was 1999 oil prices.
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Spending as long as I do here, it's easy to forget that Oddworld has actual fans.
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