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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by bliteben on Monday March 28, 2022 @12:42PM (#30832443)
"unlimited"? no it will just be limited by the next thing. At current rates we are what 400 years out from using all the energy that reaches earth from the Sun.

https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m#page=26

I definitely would argue we need improved nuclear power even if just for improving space exploration, but we also need to accept that our whole current way of thinking with regards to growth is doomed and we cannot just innovate our way out of it without at least changing the rules.

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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by JumpCrisscross on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:00PM (#30832688)
> our whole current way of thinking with regards to growth is doomed

Having to find extraterrestrial and/or extrasolar sources of power four hundred years from now is far from doom.

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Re:Majority in Japan backs nuclear power for first time sinc... by bliteben on Monday March 28, 2022 @01:45PM (#30833296)
or just drastically slow our increase in energy usage.

Further in the same ridiculous analogy that book points out if we built Dyson spheres around every star in the Milky Way we could get along for 2500 years at our current energy consumption growth rates.

Doomed is not really the right word you are correct, because it just won't happen, we will meet the limit of physics and realize we can't keep increasing our energy usage even if we wanted to. But our desire to have GDP monotonically increasing is doomed for sure.

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