I feel conflicted about this. On the one hand, it seems like an enormous waste and a threat to the effort to contain climate change. On the other hand, this wo

I feel conflicted about this. On the one hand, it seems like an enormous waste and a threat to the effort to contain climate change. On the other hand, this would seem in line with the idea that life has evolved to more efficiently dissipate energy. So this might be the natural path forward? Statistical physics of self-replication: https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/139/12/121923/74793/Statistical-physics-of-self-replication https://pubs.aip.org/aip/jcp/article/139/12/121923/74793/Sta...