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That's the spirit! So... You're saying we can increase energy consumption by 20,000X before we encounter hard engineering problems like building an offworld h
by dalbasal 8y ago
That's the spirit!
So... You're saying we can increase energy consumption by 20,000X before we encounter hard engineering problems like building an offworld heat waste dump? As far as the sun being insufficient, nuclear.
I like the moxy, but let's go for a modest 1,000X by 20x0.
- wcoenen 8y ago> So... You're saying we can increase energy consumption by 20,000X before we encounter hard engineering problems No, I think we would run into serious issues already at 100 times current use, or "1% of an extra sun" worth of power. And that's only 230 years away at 2% growth rate. Or even just 60 years at 8% growth rate. (That's what oil growth was like before the oil shocks in the seventies, so plausibly what would happen if we got something like cheap fusion.)
- dalbasal 8y agoOk I'll take 100x for now. We can renegotiate later.