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It's actually not reasonable; since the 70s there have been significant pushes toward efficiency on a variety of fronts which make pre-1970s energy consumption
by jeffreymcmanus 15y ago
It's actually not reasonable; since the 70s there have been significant pushes toward efficiency on a variety of fronts which make pre-1970s energy consumption statistics inapplicable.
- wcoenen 15y agoI know; my point was that this drive for energy efficiency would disappear again in a world with limitless energy supply from fusion.
- jeffreymcmanus 15y agoBut nothing's ever "limitless," though -- energy would still cost something (even though it could be 1/100th of what it is today). Transmission and storage of energy would still have costs and that's where the drive for efficiency would come from.