>>12899448Depends largely on how this energy source outputs said energy and it's properties.
If it's a single, non-reproducible, limited-in quantity object/device that outputs easily workable energy like heat: The country in which it's found would probably get overthrown/infiltrated by a larger country (China, US, One of the richer EU nations, Russia) after a power struggle (pun intended) and the object would end up in their hands. If the object produces too much heat to move it then the country in which it was found may be annexed instead. If it outputs heat said country would pretty easily be able to build a gargantuan power station around it and with good enough energy distribution power its entire people and even supply neighbouring countries at a cost. Cars and planes would still run on gas though so it would really only be your electricity that you benefit from so nothing much would change for most of the world. This is also all contingent on it producing a lot of heat btw, if it simply produced 1 milliwatt eternally it would be of much scientific interest but no immediate practical use.
The only way I can see it helping us get to mars any sooner is if:
-We have large enough quantities of it that we don't mind sending some off to mars
-Produces a comparable amount of power to a rocket engine in the form of thermal energy (In this case we could simply load a rocket with inert material at low density. Use the gargantuan power output from this energy source to vapourize and expel said inert material from the rocked just like what happens in regular chemical rockets excepts we'd be using the inert material in place of explosive propellant and we'd be using the thermal energy from this source in lieu of the energy chemical rockets get from combustion)
-Is somehow also safe enough to install on a rocket despite the energy requirements required to satisfy the above point (Maybe it comes with an on/off switch, idk)
