> I don't want to doubt we will find some use for more energy but... I think I have all the energy I need to be honest. Not quite. You have more than enough en

> I don't want to doubt we will find some use for more energy but... I think I have all the energy I need to be honest. Not quite. You have more than enough energy for what you could imagine using it for. But I guarantee you that a greater abundance of cheap energy will create new uses for that energy. That's how its worked for the entire of human history. The amount of energy we're talking about here is mind-boggling, almost incomprehensible. Typically we talk about this in the Kardashev scale (and usually the Sagan normalized variant). The short version of this is that: - A Kardashev-1 (K1) civilization uses all the energy out planet collects from the Sun, estimated at around 10"16 Watts; - A K2 civilization uses all the energy output by the Sun, estimated at 10^26W - A K3 civilization uses all the energy produced by the stars in our galaxy, estimated at 10^36W. We are roughly a K0.6-0.7 civilization on this scale. Human energy consumption I believe is estimated at 10"11W. So a K2 civilization has access to 1 million billion times what we have now. It's like if every person on Earth had access to 140 million times the Earth's energy usage.