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by forum_ghost
1464 days ago
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It’s very disturbing to read comments on an allegedly techie forum that insist the expansion of energy capacity is somehow bad. What, we will be the first spacefaring, Kardashev Type 2 civilization that is powered solely by windmills? Why is energy demonized so much? There will be 100x, 1000x more energy use in the future in the entire economy. You are worried some tiny fraction of a percent is an issue? |
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YES.
Adding a whole new country to the map right now, when we don't have enough clean energy to go around, and we are killing our environment with emissions from energy generation, is a BAD idea.
Far from helping to increase demand for clean energy, as is the meme, cryptocurrency mining is incentivising the return of fossil fuel power plants to service (as has happened in the US and other places) and using vast amounts of coal power in places like Kazakhstan. It's the opposite of what we should be doing, which is reducing our power footprint until we have a handle on things.
> There will be 100x, 1000x more energy use in the future in the entire economy.
Maybe, but if that was using our current mix of tech, we'd cook ourselves in the process.