Depending on the energy and resource requirements of transporters it may still be more efficient (and less risky) to build housing in space versus trans-orbital commuting via beaming.
I believe it’s been mentioned before that transporters are hard enough to build and run that most non-critical transport is still done with conventional shuttles to save resources and ensure timely transport for actually critical tasks. And Taking a shuttle commute from Earth to Spacedock would be a bit time consuming. And considering the thousands that would work at Utopia Planitia- yeah thats a decent bit of traffic.
Well they use replicators for food. I believe holodecks were explained as the same type of matter energy manipulation. So I’m not sure it would take that much.
transporters are hard enough to build and run that most non-critical transport is still done with conventional shuttles to save resources
When was this mentioned? I basically figured that Trek’s post-scarcity civilization would make the energy expenditures trivial.
OTOH – Mars is at least a day’s travel from Earth at Warp 1. I’m not sure what a reasonable range for the transporter is, but “multiple light-days” does seem a bit much.
I seem to remember it being discussed in some book somewhere, so idk if its Canon. I think it had less to do with energy and more to do with the actual logistics of having sufficient transporter pads and network bandwidth for volume of people.
I figured workers beamed up to the yards every day. Saves having to build crew quarters in space.
Depending on the energy and resource requirements of transporters it may still be more efficient (and less risky) to build housing in space versus trans-orbital commuting via beaming.
I believe it’s been mentioned before that transporters are hard enough to build and run that most non-critical transport is still done with conventional shuttles to save resources and ensure timely transport for actually critical tasks. And Taking a shuttle commute from Earth to Spacedock would be a bit time consuming. And considering the thousands that would work at Utopia Planitia- yeah thats a decent bit of traffic.
Well they use replicators for food. I believe holodecks were explained as the same type of matter energy manipulation. So I’m not sure it would take that much.
When was this mentioned? I basically figured that Trek’s post-scarcity civilization would make the energy expenditures trivial.
OTOH – Mars is at least a day’s travel from Earth at Warp 1. I’m not sure what a reasonable range for the transporter is, but “multiple light-days” does seem a bit much.
I seem to remember it being discussed in some book somewhere, so idk if its Canon. I think it had less to do with energy and more to do with the actual logistics of having sufficient transporter pads and network bandwidth for volume of people.