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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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