/sci/ - Science & Math

>>10084022
Artificial intelligence. If we can make robots with basic motor skills that are intelligent enough that extensive programming is not required, we'll finally get another industrial revolution. Honestly things have been pretty stagnant. The computer age wasn't actually that revolutionary.
>>10084048
Anon. You are thinking too small. We can already make lots of cryogen. We can already make super dense fuels for fission rockets. Fuel availability ain't the obstacle. Neither is throwing energy at superconducting(LOL!) railguns. We might be able to make air breathing fusion jet engines for space launch. Pic related. We could make project pluto style atmospheric ramjets that can fly at supersonic speeds for years, with a heck of a lot less deadly radiation. Another absolute classic use case for fusion power is fusion torch, just use a fusion reactor's plasma to disintegrate everything to ions and pass through a mass spectrometer to recycle everything into component elements. It's the ultimate form of recycling!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_torch

>>carbon capture
you're damn fucking right that the only way carbon capture is ever going to work is with artificial fusion power.