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It's good things are getting efficient up to a point however those kind of savings are unsustainable and in the longterm our energy use will continue to grow ex
by wapapaloobop 11y ago
It's good things are getting efficient up to a point however those kind of savings are unsustainable and in the longterm our energy use will continue to grow exponentially, including for environmental management. Thus it doesn't make sense to research power sources that aren't potentially 100s of times greater than our current usage.
- lolc 11y ago"For my future life of luxury I will have to find a lot of gold so I'm not gonna plant potatoes today." Boring, pointless potatoes.
- wapapaloobop 11y agoThat's a false analogy since farming potatoes is an existing technology.
- lolc 11y agoYou advocated forgoing research in a proven field for research in speculative fields. The analogy is about favoring prospecting over farming. In farming you can calculate an expected yield, in prospecting you don't know what you are going to find.