Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion
by jeffreymcmanus on Friday May 06, 2011 @01:06AM
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It's actually not reasonable; since the 70s there have been significant pushes toward efficiency on a variety of fronts which make pre-1970s energy consumption statistics inapplicable.
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Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion
by wcoenen on Friday May 06, 2011 @03:08AM
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I know; my point was that this drive for energy efficiency would disappear again in a world with limitless energy supply from fusion.
Re:Amazon's Jeff Bezos Backs Nuclear Startup General Fusion
by jeffreymcmanus on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:15PM
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But nothing's ever "limitless," though -- energy would still cost something (even though it could be 1/100th of what it is today). Transmission and storage of energy would still have costs and that's where the drive for efficiency would come from.