Refueling Our Sun: Holding Back Eternity
Science & Futurism with Isaac Arthur
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The Future of Fusion in Stars and Nebula
We were talking a lot about fusion today in stars and hopefully in power plants in the future. I don't think we should rule that option out or for that matter other higher tech ones like opening a warm wall from our Sun to empty space as an infinite supply of hydrogen. More importantly though Earth is always going to be our first planet and our Sun, Sun, our first star. We'll never forget Earth and the Sun so it is easy to imagine extreme efforts being taken to preserve them for as long as possible. Our first Sun could then easily end up being our last Sun too as others were disassembled or died but Sol remained rising every morning for untold trillions of days to come.
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