How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system? Forum: Spacesettlers
Thread: How to get to 10 trillion people in this solar system?
# 7881 bydehammer@... on June 8, 2006, 2:07 a.m.
Member since 2021-10-03
at our current lvl of recycling technology, 90 percent is the best
you can expect. By the time we get farther out, hopefully, the
technology will be at 100 percent.
>
> For settlements around the earth 90% would probably do, although
> importing ANYTHING from Earth will likely always be expensive.
When
> settlements eventually move to the Kuiper belt and Oort cloud and
> beyond, 100% recycling will be necessary since opportunities for
> mining new materials will be unpredictable and unreliable and
> resupply from Earth will be out of the question. I guess those
that
> choose to go that far out will even have to consider the
implications
> of recycling the valuable organic material in their deceased.
Since
> they likely will have been in space for several generations with
no