• @[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.

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      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.