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Good news from an energy perspective:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
"Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments."
We already have the energy, the resources, and, the technological capability. 馃榿
Just ran through a rough set of figures.
The paper here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
was using energy data from before September 2024, so it didn't include the latest increases in solar panel manufacturing and the matching fall in price of electrical production.
With those increases, the baseline energy requirements fall to 25% of global energy use, and will continue to drop as panel production rises. 馃榿
We CAN get past this bottleneck, and get past the Great Filter. 馃榿
Just ran through a rough set of figures.
The paper here:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
was using energy data from before September 2024, so it didn't include the latest increases in solar panel manufacturing and the matching fall in price of electrical production.
With those increases, the baseline energy requirements fall to 25% of global energy use, and will continue to drop as panel production rises. 馃榿
We CAN get past this bottleneck, and get past the Great Filter. 馃榿
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