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You know very well which source he's talking about. And he said say near infinite, precisely to defend against obnoxious commenters.
by Jyaif 9y ago
You know very well which source he's talking about.
And he said say near infinite, precisely to defend against obnoxious commenters.
- elago 9y agoCould you please name the technology? I work with renewable energy and I have no idea. Are you talking about nuclear?
- stephengillie 9y agoAncestor comment is probably daydreaming about being in a Kardashev 2 civilization with a full Dyson Swarm collecting 100% of the Sun's total energy output, in all directions. Some estimate we're currently only at Kardashev 0.8, harnessing about 80% of what energy from the Sun hits the Earth, while others argue that this percentage is much lower. Ideas are easy, implementation is hard. Edit for clarity.
- Anderkent 9y ago>Some estimate we're currently only at Kardashev 0.8, harnessing about 80% of what energy from the Sun hits the Earth. 80% seems super high, unless by 'harnessing' you also mean things like 'the sun energy warms up the ocean allowing fish to live which we then consume for some% of the energy that sun sent'. I'd be pretty surprised if efficiently used energy / energy hitting the earth from the sun was >20%.
- JohnJamesRambo 9y agoWe aren't in the same universe as 80% of the Sun's energy that hits Earth being used. The numbers I'm seeing are 174 petawatts hits Earth and the world uses 18 terawatts of energy.
- JohnJamesRambo 9y agoI still don't know, I'm sorry.