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by lambdatronics 1378 days ago
Yeah. This blog post [0] has a nice graph showing that at continued exponential growth of energy consumption, we have less than a few hundred years until the planet would become uninhabitable simply due to the amount of additional heat. In particular, in about 400 years, the energy demand would equal the total solar energy flux hitting the planet.

[0] https://dothemath.ucsd.edu/2011/07/galactic-scale-energy/