Re:Google announces Q1 2023 earnings [pdf]
by crazygringo on Tuesday April 25, 2023 @05:45PM
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Growth doesn't require increased energy usage at all.
To the contrary, if you figure out a way to manufacture the same widget X but using 25% less energy, that's economic growth.
Long-term economic growth is primarily a phenomenon of increasing human efficiency which is enabled mainly via improved education and technological progress.
Sure we need energy to heat our homes and grow our food and power our transportation and build our phones and so forth, but those needs are not growing exponentially whatsoever. Homes in the developed world, for example, are becoming more energy efficient rather than less.
To the contrary, if you figure out a way to manufacture the same widget X but using 25% less energy, that's economic growth.
Long-term economic growth is primarily a phenomenon of increasing human efficiency which is enabled mainly via improved education and technological progress.
Sure we need energy to heat our homes and grow our food and power our transportation and build our phones and so forth, but those needs are not growing exponentially whatsoever. Homes in the developed world, for example, are becoming more energy efficient rather than less.