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Where will the power come from, the water and more importantly, the silver?
Fusion is effectively infinite power that produces water as a byproduct, there are roids out in our asteroid belt the size of Texas made out of precious metals and companies are already gearing up to exploit these within the next few decades. Look up the "psyche" roid NASA has been tracking for a while. We will likely use nuclear and more "non renewables" to fill in energy needs in the meantime while we finish hammering out fusion.
Fusion is a non starter, the power needed to start and run it is far more than it produces. https://news.newenergytimes.net/iter-fusion-power-output-consumption-facts-and-falsehoods/
There are new ways of producing power that have been suppressed, here are some of them. https://web.archive.org/web/20220429004028/http://www.cheniere.org/misc/oulist.htm
We don't need to mine asteroids when we can make these elements ourselves. https://www.strikefoundation.earth/
The math works in fusion, we're still hammering out plasma containment issues before we can start getting net positive on it, give it 10-15 years and you will probably see a commercial fusion reactor operating. Suppressed doesn't matter if nobody funds it, so fusion is the current holy grail. Some technology is "suppressed" for good reasons because we haven't proven that it works at scale. Sometimes it suppressed because it's simply not profitable, and the almighty dollar runs the world for now.
And if all the things you posted are so good then why are you asking the question in reply to my comment? "Where will the power come from, the water and more importantly, the silver?" Seems like you have your answers, but the rest of the world is set on fusion and space mining right now and will be until things become "unsuppressed" but business can't rely on that so fusion it is.
Another 80 years of waiting for "10 years in the future"