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Where does that 0.3 TW figure come from? That seems awfully high.
by dmd 7mo ago
Where does that 0.3 TW figure come from? That seems awfully high.
- b40d-48b2-979e 7mo agoYou're trying to converse with a LLM. It's made up.
- dmd 7mo agojfc. What is the point? What do people get out of doing that?
- b40d-48b2-979e 7mo agoI don't know, but HN in particular has an AI-sycophancy problem where I see this most common versus other link aggregator sites.
- harrall 7mo agoNope it’s 100% legit and I even remembered it wrong. It’s actually 0.6 TW. You can get the number of TW from this report https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption Convert TWh to TW for a year average.
- harrall 7mo agoOops it’s actually 0.6 TW. https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption Convert TWh to TW for a year average.
- dmd 7mo agoHuh! I'm kind of stunned that we only use ~30x the power that we did back then. If I'd been asked to guess I would have added another 0 or even two of them.
- harrall 7mo agoYeah we had an exponential jump when we discovered oil but we maxed that out and the growth has been linear since (and paying for it environmentally too). I’m waiting for the next big major discovery in energy generation. We’re always on the verge of fusion… fusion will be like the discovery of oil. Humanity will jump forward… well, technologically at least.