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Re:The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a ... by blencdr on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:21AM (#22215670)
Productivity by automation is constrained by the available energy, also economic growth could already be limited by the lack of availale energy.

https://energyeconomicgrowth.org/sites/eeg.opml.co.uk/files/...

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Re:The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a ... by adrianN on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:02AM (#22215806)
Solar panels are pretty cheap. If lack of energy were a problem, I'd expect a lot more of them.
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Re:The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a ... by ben_w on Sunday February 02, 2020 @03:56AM (#22215965)
They are cheap, but production of them is currently growing roughly exponentially, so I don’t think your argument holds.
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Re:The End of Economic Growth? Unintended Consequences of a ... by siculars on Sunday February 02, 2020 @02:42AM (#22215735)
The cost of energy is going towards zero while (and because) available energy is going to infinity.
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