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Originally Posted by Hersbird
The guy I referenced above has some other blogs about how no energy is sustainable at our growth, not even the entire power of the sun. In 2500 years we would need all the energy in the galaxy.
https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/g...-scale-energy/
His point is the growth has to stop at some point, just on the physics of it. He then ties that to economic growth in another blog but I'm not convinced the two are 100% tied together. |
The US data does not account for the fact that the earliest data points are from a time where the whole 'US' population was a few thousand and covered just a fraction of the land the US has now. Run the same data over Europe, or incorporate native Americans, then the graph wouldn't be as steep.
Then, even if the energy used would grow 100 times each century (it won't; in fact the growth % is tapering down), it would be 10 billion times what we use now by 2500 - nothing we can generate on Earth, but still way less than the Sun's output.
The whole Galaxy? Exaggerations don't go bigger than that.
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