We currently consume roughly 35 billion barrels a year. That’s about 5 barrels per human being on earth. Crazy, but certainly not completely disproportionate. I

We currently consume roughly 35 billion barrels a year. That’s about 5 barrels per human being on earth. Crazy, but certainly not completely disproportionate. If you had told a 1800 businessman that, I’m sure they would have had a lot of questions, but it’s not something beyond their imagination. I’m not sure what the math for the energy harvesting method described in this thread ends up being exactly like, but it seems that in order for it to have an effect you’d need to have something like every human consuming, on average, as much energy as all of humanity currently consumes. That starts stretching the imagination.