I would rather have an energy carefree society getting power from a Dyson Swarm encapsulating the sun.
On a currently realistic note, this is an interesting wiki page. It would be really cool if we could get our energy consumption around that level without sacrificing technology.
But what would that look like? I don’t care for the mass consumerism gluttony encouraged by mega corporations but I do like having the option to run servers on a computer without worrying much about power consumption.
I would rather have an energy carefree society getting power from a Dyson Swarm encapsulating the sun.
one doesn’t necessarily exclude the other, but also, i’m afraid that as humanity transitions to type 2 civilization on the kardashev scale, our existing problems are going to scale with us
it’s not that we don’t have enough of the energy available, it’s that we are partially unwilling and partially unable to properly harness it, which would be perfectly manageable if approached sensibly
but in any case, i think that the potential of the 2000 watt society concept is not so much restrict energy usage, but more so to at least partially decouple energy consumption and the standards of living, which have been pretty tightly correlated up to this point
but yeah, i can’t deny, having a dyson swarm would be incredibly cool :)
I would rather have an energy carefree society getting power from a Dyson Swarm encapsulating the sun.
On a currently realistic note, this is an interesting wiki page. It would be really cool if we could get our energy consumption around that level without sacrificing technology. But what would that look like? I don’t care for the mass consumerism gluttony encouraged by mega corporations but I do like having the option to run servers on a computer without worrying much about power consumption.
one doesn’t necessarily exclude the other, but also, i’m afraid that as humanity transitions to type 2 civilization on the kardashev scale, our existing problems are going to scale with us
it’s not that we don’t have enough of the energy available, it’s that we are partially unwilling and partially unable to properly harness it, which would be perfectly manageable if approached sensibly
but in any case, i think that the potential of the 2000 watt society concept is not so much restrict energy usage, but more so to at least partially decouple energy consumption and the standards of living, which have been pretty tightly correlated up to this point
but yeah, i can’t deny, having a dyson swarm would be incredibly cool :)