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 :)
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 :)