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Filling in the roofs and spending billions amounts to linear growth. (Spend $1, get $1 worth of energy; fill 1 roof, get that area in energy). The argument of t
by mlsu 4y ago
Filling in the roofs and spending billions amounts to linear growth. (Spend $1, get $1 worth of energy; fill 1 roof, get that area in energy). The argument of the article is that the exponential growth will outshine whatever linear coefficients we throw at it.
Even going interplanetary; that is only linear growth -- go to 1 new sun, get 1 new sun of energy!
Exponential wins in the end no matter what.
- chii 4y agoIts only linear because the process is linear as you described. There's no reason why we can't have exponential growth - produce a machine which manufactures more of itself. This machine also contains solar panels (and other appendages) to collect resources to replicate itself. Then very soon, the earth will be overrun with such machines, and we can go interplanetary, then consume the sun to go interstellar. At least, whoever that remains after the grey goo takes everything else would go interstellar...