Thank you. An interesting read. I found your treatment very thorough given its premises and approach.
Sadly we disagree at a point which you seem to take as given without further treatment but which I question:
The ability and energy to set-up infrastructure to exploit interplanetary resources with sufficient net energy gain to sufficiently mine mercury (much less build a dyson sphere).
The problem here is that I do not have refereneces to actually back my opinion on this and I didn’t have enough time yet to build my complexity theoretic and thermodynamics arguments into a sufficiently presentable form.
Fission is sufficient.
Is this an opinion or a factual statement. If the latter I’d like to see some refs.
http://www.fhi.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/intergalactic-spreading.pdf
Thank you. An interesting read. I found your treatment very thorough given its premises and approach. Sadly we disagree at a point which you seem to take as given without further treatment but which I question:
The ability and energy to set-up infrastructure to exploit interplanetary resources with sufficient net energy gain to sufficiently mine mercury (much less build a dyson sphere).
The problem here is that I do not have refereneces to actually back my opinion on this and I didn’t have enough time yet to build my complexity theoretic and thermodynamics arguments into a sufficiently presentable form.
http://lesswrong.com/lw/ii5/baseline_of_my_opinion_on_lw_topics/
We already have solar panel setups with roughly the required energy efficiency.