MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion energy

Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by kongin on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:48AM (#28466714)

So that's between 150 and 250 years with the 2.5% energy consumption grows, then that much again for us to produce more energy than the sun shines on Earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_supply_and_consum...

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by xyzzyz on Thursday September 09, 2021 @03:00AM (#28467077)

Yes, and with 2.5% energy consumption growth, in only 2500 years, we'll consume entire power output Milky Way galaxy.

Extrapolating exponential growth over long timescales leads to silly results.

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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by baq on Friday September 10, 2021 @12:38AM (#28477871)

nothing silly about it if the purpose is to make a point in a discussion with an economist. some of them just don't get it that energy consumption is correlated with economic growth and you can't just grow yourself out of every problem.

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