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"tl;dr: Building new solar, wind, and storage is about to be cheaper than operating existing coal and gas power plants. That will change everything." Yeah, rig
by jayalpha 8y ago
"tl;dr: Building new solar, wind, and storage is about to be cheaper than operating existing coal and gas power plants. That will change everything."
Yeah, right Ramez.
Galactic-Scale Energy
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy
- convivialdingo 8y agoInteresting take. Very few are looking at future energy needs - we're mostly concerned about here and how.
- philwelch 8y ago> "Let me restate that important point. No matter what the technology, a sustained 2.3% energy growth rate would require us to produce as much energy as the entire sun within 1400 years." 1400 years seems like a perfectly reasonable timeframe to develop into a Kardashev II civilization.