Breakable wrote: I find your lack of imagination disturbing. Believe me we will be able to colonize EVERYTHING once we have fusion power.
But why would cheap power make Antarctica [em]more[/em] attractive than less remote locales? With cheap power we can, for example, make the US Southwest bloom with desalinated water, and build there far more cheaply than digging in ice, and with none of the drawbacks (such as having to live completely underground, with no ready access to commercial transportation to the rest of the world).
Cheap power makes a lot of things [em]possible[/em], but that doesn’t make all of them [em]attractive[/em].
