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A more accurate measure would be the average amount of wellbeing a civilization extracts from its consumed units of energy.
by PeterStuer 7y ago
A more accurate measure would be the average amount of wellbeing a civilization extracts from its consumed units of energy.
- ben_w 7y agoThe difference between each point on the Kardashev scale is about 10 orders of magnitude. The observed variation of well-being per unit of energy is so vanishingly small in comparison that I don’t even need to work it out, because it’s like comparing one subsistence farmer with only their own labour — no tractors or horses — to the entire primary energy consumption of the industrialised United States of America today. 2500 kcal/day vs. 3.18 TW