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Futurologist back then must have placed almost no importance on the cost of energy. Might be due to the fact that man made energy was quite a new thing and it'
by Aperocky 4y ago
Futurologist back then must have placed almost no importance on the cost of energy.
Might be due to the fact that man made energy was quite a new thing and it's getting cheaper quite fast and seemingly boundless.
Like Moores law. It ends eventually.
- HPsquared 4y agoThere are still a couple of orders of magnitude within reach, if we can commercialize molten salt reactors. After that, solar power in space (using asteroid or lunar mining) for gargantuan scale.
- AYBABTME 4y agoThe cost of energy would have been less of a problem without nuclear scare.
- bryanlarsen 4y agoThe price of energy dropped continuously and exponentially from 1873-1973, and ~1973 is the start of the "great stagnation". The price of energy recently resumed its exponential cost reduction, but only for those who have access to solar energy. Hopefully those cost reductions result in price reductions for the rest of us soon.