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Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by gghyslain on Thursday September 09, 2021 @12:37PM (#28471596)
You can’t just look at electricity consumption. You have to look at total energy consumption. Including the energy necessary to produce the goods you consume. And that is increasing exponentially.

In a way, the US (and Western countries) are outsourcing their energy consumption.

Re:MIT-designed project achieves major advance toward fusion... by codethief on Thursday September 09, 2021 @01:19PM (#28472147)
> Including the energy necessary to produce the goods you consume.

Exactly, the original link I posted is more or less an argument against infinite economic growth.