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At any given efficiency, more energy means more productivity (in the same way: at any given amount of energy production, more efficiency means more productivity
by MostlyStable 2y ago
At any given efficiency, more energy means more productivity (in the same way: at any given amount of energy production, more efficiency means more productivity). Yes, we should be increasing efficiency where reasonable, but we should also be increasing energy production.
There is a reason that the Kardashev scale is about energy utilization.
- llsf 2y agoCorrect, we can innovate and make the "transformer" (i.e. machines) more efficient (i.e. use less energy for same output). But the thing is, if energy was cheaper and more available we would just produce more. The reason why now we most enjoy some time off (weekend, vacation, retirement) is thank to the machines that can produce more with less humans. Now humans mostly drive the machines. I guess the ultimate extreme evolution would be machine driving machines, so humans could be out of the loop, except for the initial input goal. And machine would extract/mine/recycle, transform, transport, deliver everything we ever need. It would be one big machine (with lots of energy) extracting (and hopefully recycling) earth elements to satisfy humans.
- jodrellblank 2y ago> "It would be one big machine (with lots of energy) extracting (and hopefully recycling) earth elements to satisfy humans." See also that machine in fiction, breaking down: E.M. Forster's "The Machine Stops" from 1909, available free at Project Gutenberg https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72890/pg72890-images.html#THE_MACHINE_STOPS https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72890/pg72890-images.ht...