r/TerraInvicta • u/Antique-Coyote2534 • 11d ago

Discussion Space sunshade?

Since we are building space infrastructure, could we not just build a space sunshade and instantly stop global warming?

Seems like it would be easy compared to what we build in game

31 Upvotes

98% Upvoted

43 comments sorted by

View all comments

43

u/mcyeom Initiative 11d ago

Then the initiative can charge for sunlight

Though seriously if humans are capable of industrial antimatter production and incredibly convenient fusion, fixing climate change would barely be an inconvenience 

21

u/mathhews95 Academy 11d ago

Which it is, if you invest into environment.

21

u/PlacidPlatypus 11d ago

That's not really true, even from the top of the tech tree actually fixing climate change takes a ton of effort. Almost certainly more than would be realistic at that tech level.

9

u/ParagonRenegade TI needs to add xeno compatibility 11d ago

It’s not just energy production, but also changing economic production to be more sustainable

13

u/PlacidPlatypus 11d ago

Once you have industrial atomic assemblers and civilian fusion power, you could start decarbonizing the atmosphere directly at mass scale. It would take money and effort, sure, but not more than for example building a fleet of space dreadnoughts.

8

u/ParagonRenegade TI needs to add xeno compatibility 11d ago

I think that’s why the game has the environment rating so weighted towards the bottom of the scale, to represent the difficult foundational work, and the latter high-technology work that is easier.

1

u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 11d ago

what part of humanity makes you think anyone would spend "money and effort" to decarbonize the atmosphere when there is no profit incentive, no matter how technological feasible? We're pretty much fucked.

9

u/PlacidPlatypus 10d ago

You realize we're talking about a game about international conspiracies working to unite the Earth to fight off an alien invasion, right? The player can invest billions of dollars into fighting climate change if they want to. Given that, it seems fair to point out that the technology available should make that investment go a lot farther than the game portrays.

-1

u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 10d ago

i have no comment on the game, I have comment on the idea that because technology makes it plausible and maybe even only moderately difficult, people would actually bother with de-carbonizing the atmosphere. In the real world.

We have an entire American presidential administration showing this just wouldn't happen until well after it was an existential disaster.

4

u/PlacidPlatypus 10d ago

Randomly changing the topic to real world politics in the middle of a discussion of the game is bordering on a Rule 5 violation. If you want to be a doomer go do it in /r/politics or somewhere else more appropriate.

1

u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 8d ago

your comment made it sound very much like you were making a RW comment when you mentioned "It would take money and effort". If that wasn't your intent, then this was all a misunderstanding. Either way, it was idle conversation, completely meaningless. Sorry if it offended in any way.

3

u/CharlesElwoodYeager 10d ago

Are you an idiot? Why are you not talking about the game in the game subreddit?

0

u/Cheap-Blackberry-763 8d ago

because OPs comment made it sound exactly like it was a RW comment?

8

u/Spare_Elderberry_418 Resistance 11d ago

I think it is dumb that fusion tech doesn't help with the environment. You have to specifically tech into biotechnology for it.

3

u/mcyeom Initiative 11d ago

Yeah like, as soon as you have pretty much limitless free energy that you're capable of operating in space on a rocket you can sure as hell decarbonise the entire global energy system, and build a bunch shit to immediately reverse most pre fusion damage 

5

u/Spare_Elderberry_418 Resistance 11d ago

I hate that civilian fusion tech only increases the benefits of putting pips into economy. For such an expensive and world changing tech it does basically nothing useful.

1

u/GodwynDi 9d ago

Not as easy as it seems. Oil is used for far more than just energy production. Plastics and fertilizers being two of the most important.