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Yeah. Well. That's a fun math game and not much more. Other view on "energy growth rate": https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/ https://doth
by wazoox 7y ago
Yeah. Well. That's a fun math game and not much more. Other view on "energy growth rate":
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/ https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
Energy growth is due to end sooner or later.
First, in the real world, any long term exponential growth is actually the upward branch of an S (that plateau at some point) or of a bell curve (that falls down after a peak).
Second, with such an energy growth rate we'll boil the ocean from heat dissipation long before we reach the stars.
- imtringued 7y agoThere is also the problem that as you get away from the sun you receive less energy. Making your own portable mini sun with a fusion reactor is essential for interstellar travel.
- eru 7y agoMostly I agree. But: we can keep our energy curve growing for a bit longer, if we branch out into the local space around us. No worries about boiling the ocean, when the energy stays in orbit.