/sci/ - Science & Math

>>4263173
Don't respond to him. He's probably wandered out from /int/ or /pol/, or probably both, judging by the amount of mad and crazy.

So we can get a whole lot of resources just from farming algae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae#Uses

But what about metals and such?
Nodules are too deep to get at easily and distilling metals from seawater might be a bit too low-intensity.

And power?
If there are persistent currents we could put up some turbines.
If not, that would leave geothermal, wave, wind, solar or mains. But I doubt anyone into this would want to be dependent on power supplied by landlubbers?

One interesting possibility would be a small nuclear reactor in the ten to fifty megawatt range, though some will of course want to steer cleat of that.