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"Renewable" isn't the best word for wind and solar, better would be "use-it-or-lose-it", either you harvest it or it dissipates into useless low grade heat. Usi
by gpm 3y ago
"Renewable" isn't the best word for wind and solar, better would be "use-it-or-lose-it", either you harvest it or it dissipates into useless low grade heat. Using more of it doesn't deplete the supply of it.
Solar energy (and thus wind assuming otherwise constant environmental conditions) is only going to get more plentiful for next 5 billion years...
- pfdietz 3y agoThe Earth becomes uninhabitable in about a billion years due to solar brightening, but your point certainly applies to far future civilizations in solar orbit.