Fusion or fission for energy, IMHO. I'm bullish AF on the hybrids China is working on.

None of the other options stand a chance, not even solar on Luna's poles. Too heavy to import, too capital-heavy to build capacity in situ.

Fission is a much easier challenge - but you need high-grade ores. On Earth, that requires hydrothermal activity. Mars is almost certainly a yes. Ceres just possibly. Europa and Ganymede have ice diapirism and fractional crystallisation from brines which should work even better.

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Ceres might be easiest? traveling to jupiter's moons sounds too far.

Ceres might be, very true. Its smaller than Luna, but right on the "snow line" so it has an easier job holding on to useful amounts of water and keeping hydrothermal systems running for us :)

It's always awesome to meet cosmos fans ;) I recall a documentary on Netflix about life on another plant..it was by far one my favorite, along with lost in space

Fusion is certainly safer in terms of production. But, the process is far more time consuming and it has a higher potential to be cost-ineffective. Fission energy (as extremely dangerous as it is) has the potential to swiftly generate a massive amount of clean energy.

This. And hybrids.

Fusion is nowhere near economic break-even and I suspect never will be, but using high-energy fusion neutrons to fission the nuisance U238 / Pu240 in fission fuel is all kinds of win.

In terms of supply, when dealing with fusion neutrons, how significant would it need to be to generate a reaction of that scale?

It would be sweet to get 1:10 fusion:fission, burn-up would be a completely different game; but even 1:10000 allows the designer to remove the external neutron sources and improve the responsiveness of the reactor.

China is where it's at on innovation. Would have sounded ridiculous to say that 20 years ago, but here we are...

Really?! Just 1:10000?! If that is true, then yea, it would be the best option. What about he-3?

Despite its use as a plot device in scifi, IRL He-3 is a neutron poison :(

Lol. Yea, probably.

There was a breakthrough not to long ago! To have nuclear fissure consume less then it took. I haven't followed it but if it comes to fruition we can see substantial lower cost in electricity