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I would expect the demand for energy to be more insatiable than any other commodity because all commodities require energy to create. The only two end-user form
by dTal 7y ago
I would expect the demand for energy to be more insatiable than any other commodity because all commodities require energy to create. The only two end-user forms of energy readily available are electricity and fossil fuels.
I imagine that electricity consumption will rise with supply in the same way any life multiplies up to the capacity of its food source.
- ghaff 7y agoFurthermore, if you have an essentially unlimited supply of electricity, you immediately start changing processes, materials, etc. to favor electrical assumption over other costs.
- swagasaurus-rex 7y agoIs the end result life that consumes the majority of the energy produced (dyson spheres come to mind) to create massively more monolithic and efficient economies, converting enormous amounts of raw material into civilization? What would make this different than the postulated grey goo scenario, whereinstead man and machine are the ultimate exponential replicators?
- mjw1007 7y agoThe context was « enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter ». I suppose it's not implausible that household energy use could become so small compared to industrial use that it's not worth metering (so that that there'd be a maximum power deliverable but nobody would care about the household's load profile).