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Earth's radiation scales as a cube of the radius. Our energy usage is growing exponentially. You can apply big-O analysis to this problem ;)
by infinite8s 9y ago
Earth's radiation scales as a cube of the radius. Our energy usage is growing exponentially. You can apply big-O analysis to this problem ;)
- badosu 9y ago> Our energy usage is growing exponentially. Well, with efficiency gains in the latest years energy consumption (not only electricity) actually is constant or decreasing in developed countries. Add to that decreasing population fertility and if you expect that developing countries are going to follow the same trends after a certain threshold then that's not a good assumption long-term. Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Japan#/media/File:Japan_energy_and_GDP.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_Japan#/media/File:Ja... US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/media/File:US_historical_energy_consumption.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States#/m... Europe: http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/thumb/5/52/Gross_inland_energy_consumption%2C_EU-28%2C_1990-2014%2C_ktoe_new.png/800px-Gross_inland_energy_consumption%2C_EU-28%2C_1990-2014%2C_ktoe_new.png http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/thu...