10-07-2016, 06:26 PM
(10-07-2016, 04:50 PM)JoeStrout Wrote: Right, solar would be very hard that far out. I'm assuming nuclear (fission or fusion) power. There's certainly plenty of hydrogen out there for fusion, and probably enough uranium or thorium for fission if we haven't solved fusion by then (which is hard to imagine).
I actually included a power plant in the High Frontier model, but it's on the other end, not visible in the screen shot.
In the weightlessness of space there could be huge thin mirrors to concentrate the sunlight onto a photovoltaic panel. Solar could at least possibly be very easy out there, perhaps as far out as the Kuiper Belt.