Even within our own solar system, solar power gets weak quickly (hence the need to dig into both if we want to leave the solar system on a generational ship). But you are right-- mastering it would give us safe power for the inner planets when humans start the next wave of colonization and we become a multi-planet species.
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Even within our own solar system, solar power gets weak quickly (hence the need to dig into both if we want to leave the solar system on a generational ship). But you are right-- mastering it would give us safe power for the inner planets when humans start the next wave of colonization and we become a multi-planet species.