Re: Climate Change 2: Thank God for Global Warming
As a thought experiment, what would happen if we simply outlawed fossil fuels, right now? For every kind of energy generation.
About where would that send us back to, in terms of energy density / productivity? 1950? 1920? Let's further imagine there's no way around the law -- the Eschaton enforces it from afar with 100% efficiency, so there's zero black market.
I know we can't predict technological innovation with any degree of certainty, but how soon would we return to current net energy generation and productivity? 20 years? 50? never (i.e., is it literally impossible to ever generate that amount of energy using nuclear and renewable given what we know about physics)?
As a thought experiment, what would happen if we simply outlawed fossil fuels, right now? For every kind of energy generation.
About where would that send us back to, in terms of energy density / productivity? 1950? 1920? Let's further imagine there's no way around the law -- the Eschaton enforces it from afar with 100% efficiency, so there's zero black market.
I know we can't predict technological innovation with any degree of certainty, but how soon would we return to current net energy generation and productivity? 20 years? 50? never (i.e., is it literally impossible to ever generate that amount of energy using nuclear and renewable given what we know about physics)?
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