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Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by carapace on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:37AM (#41698419)
At this point we're just trading sci-fi story ideas. If we can learn to manage our population growth and/or energy consumption growth, then that's awesome!

Watch the Bartlett lecture.

Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by AnthonyMouse on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:56AM (#41698645)
The original claim was essentially that energy use can't increase past a certain point because it would result in too much energy density. The obvious flaw in the claim is that it assumes no ability to increase the volume of space in which the energy use takes place, which is an invalid premise. Space is really big.
Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by carapace on Monday September 30, 2024 @03:38PM (#41701178)
No, dude, even if you postulate FTL spaceships, the size of the Universe doesn't matter, you always eventually become an explosion. All exponential growth curves are S-shaped.

At this point I'm just repeating basic physics and math at you. I think we both have better things to do with our time. Have a good day.

Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by hcurtiss on Monday September 30, 2024 @10:52PM (#41704226)
Yeah, Ehrlich will be right any day now. Just you watch . . .
Re:Solving climate change by abusing thermodynamic scaling laws by AnthonyMouse on Monday September 30, 2024 @11:24PM (#41704366)
We don't even know for sure that the universe is finite. You're going to run out of hydrogen before you run out of somewhere to put the heat.