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| From | Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.c++ |
| Subject | Re: accelerate |
| Date | 2022-12-18 17:38 -0600 |
| Organization | Aioe.org NNTP Server |
| Message-ID | <tno8a3$6ro$1@gioia.aioe.org> (permalink) |
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On 12/18/2022 11:17 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Mr Flibble <flibble@reddwarf.jmc.corp> writes:
>> We need to accelerate investment in new nuclear build and green hydrogen
>> technologies to counter climate change. Greenpeace are wrong to dismiss
>> nuclear on the account of radioactive waste: radioactive waste already
>> exists and creating more of it doesn't make the problem significantly
>> worse or have any bearing on solving that problem. Just my two cents.
>> #climatecrisis #ClimateEmergency
>
> Even if we were able to build enough fusion power plants (if they ever
> become viable) to replace the current fossil based energy supplies,
> (before fossil fuels run out, or there won't be enough energy to
> build the replacement facilities[*]) there is a hard limit on the amount
> that energy consumption can grow (at the current rate of growth
> the waste heat alone from power production and use will heat the
> planet surface to the boiling point of water within four centuries;
> with habitability eliminated in two centuries - and that's ignoring
> carbon dioxide emissions based warming completely).
>
> https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/
>
> [*] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/10/the-energy-trap/
>
> Here's an open-source textbook that goes into the physics of energy
> production and consumption. Pretty bleak.
>
> https://escholarship.org/uc/energy_ambitions
You know, at some point we are going to build a partial Dyson sphere
around the Sun to capture its energy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
I still have thoughts about igniting Jupiter but I doubt that we can do it.
Lynn
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Re: accelerate scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-12-18 17:17 +0000
Re: accelerate Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-12-18 13:19 -0600
Re: accelerate Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2022-12-18 17:38 -0600
Re: accelerate scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2022-12-19 15:25 +0000
Re: accelerate Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> - 2022-12-19 07:38 -0800
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