• @Blue_Morpho
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    96 months ago

    The method of transport isn’t destroying the planet, the method of energy generation is destroying the planet.

    Invent a transporter today, and thousands of coal fired plants would be built tomorrow to power the transporter pads.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 months ago

      A transporters just a replicator with a targeting addon.

      Assuming it can replicate a nuclear reactor but not uranium, we have enough natural uranium to last for 1000s of years.

      Even if we went back to coal, the end of all industrial manufacturing might make up for the new pollution.

      • @Blue_Morpho
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        6 months ago

        The energy requirements of replicators are unfathomably gigantic compared to regular industrial manufacturing.

        It takes 1.6 Trillion MJ of energy to make an 8kg Bicycle.

        A nuclear reactor generates 1000 MJ/s.

        That means you would need 50 nuclear reactors to make 1 bicycle a year with a replicator.

        It’s why the TNG writers claim the Enterprise generates 12.75 exawatts. They did the math.

    • @ohwhatfollyisman
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      26 months ago

      pshhhh. just transport the pollution elsewhere. problem solved.