Would you invest in solar power in space?

[richardmurray]

Economic Corner 17
Would you invest in solar power in space? as the NASA mission to go around/circumnavigate the moon is maybe march 2026 , what do you think are the most profitable energy industries in space travel in the future and why?

 

[ProfD]

Space will be domain of the wealthy. 

 

Non-wealthy people have no reason to be concerned with outer space. They won't be able to afford any aspect of it.

 

Those who can barely afford a place to live on this planet need not think about hopping up off the ground & going to space.

 

At best, less than wealthy folks might be able to solar power similar to using public Wi-Fi.

[richardmurray]

@ProfD

On 2/23/2026 at 9:31 PM, ProfD said:

Space will be domain of the wealthy. 

 

Non-wealthy people have no reason to be concerned with outer space. They won't be able to afford any aspect of it.

 

Those who can barely afford a place to live on this planet need not think about hopping up off the ground & going to space.

 

At best, less than wealthy folks might be able to solar power similar to using public Wi-Fi.

we will see, but the history of the many oil rushes and many godl rushes and silver rushes in the usa prove that once the ability to get natural resources occurs, even with machines, wealthy people will want humans sent out there. part of the problem in outer space is energy/control systems. First, it takes time to send an electromagnetic signal. The earth has a diameter of circa eight thousand miles. Mars is nearest earth when the earth is circa thirty six million miles away. That means four point five thousand earths are between the earth and mars in a straight line when mars is cloest in its elliptical orbit.  that distance means a time delay on signals. The mission around the moon is complex. the moon is two hundred and thirty nine thousand miles from the earth at times in its orbit about the earth which means thirty earths can be lined up between the earth and the moon. These distances are massive, and since star trek or star wars technology does not exist, current human technology has inherent weaknesses with the distances. if a machine breaks down on the moon, whose going to fix it? even if you have another machine, if it has any malfunction or inability to fix the other machine, it will not be easy to adjust it. And because of weight, and the influence that has on gravity, it is not easy to put a supercomputer or some modern chemical manufacturing plant in space. these things are very heavy. My point is , engineering wise, human beings will be needed. The international space station will be closing in a few decades, while the chinese already have their space station up there. But these space stations while top of the line in terms of modern tech are not full of amenities. the rich don't want to be in space. 

But i can see rich people offer chances for poor people to leave, how was the usa born but the english government seeing a chance to get rid of its poor people. 

[ProfD]

I answered the question as presented...investing in solar power in space.

 

If wealthy people are willing to pay non-wealthy people to work in space, surely some will go in order to make money & get away from the issues here on Earth.

 

IMO, humans are at least a century away frim being able to offer large-scale employment in space. Same goes for smaller investment opportunities.