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Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water and burning it as fuel in space - Space Daily

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Asteroid mining gets sold as a trillion-dollar gold rush, but the economics point the other way: hauling platinum back to Earth would crash its price, so the only prize that adds up is mining water and burning it as fuel in space - Space Daily
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The trillion-dollar asteroid fortune collapses the moment you do the math on bringing platinum home.

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