Reply To: EmDrive + Focus Fusion = Space Access for all?

[Brian H]

Tasmodevil44 wrote: Boron availability ? Shortage ? You kidding ?

Focus fusion should have no problem with that over the next millions of years or so. Not only can it be extracted in virtually unlimited quantity from seawater if the price is high enough and we’re desperate enough, I don’t even think we would even necessarily need to do that. There are vast volcanic deposits created by volcanoes in Chile and many other parts of the world that have a very high boron content to them. And when considering how much energy can be cheaply produced from a single gram of decaborane, I don’t think focus fusion will have any problem. And furthermore, we have not even begun to thoroughly explore all the rich volcanic deposits right here in the Western part of the United States. And if unlimited cheap focus fusion can operate a plasma torch to reduce rocks, dirt, throwaway trash and garbage and everything else to their basic atomic elements for separation……then even the smallest trace amounts of boron could theoretically be extracted economically along with other valuable trace elements. Virtually unlimited energy chasing after more boron ! ! !

Prezactly! Long before Earthside resources are stretched, we’ll be mining the asteroids and Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud for whatever we need, anyhow.

And advanced and convenient as FF is, I somehow doubt it will remain the energy source of choice for a millennium, much less a megayear!