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by c1ccccc1 1025 days ago
The post assumes a 2% annual rate of growth in energy consumption. So, due to the nature of exponential functions, most of the energy loss would concentrated towards the end of the 1000 years, as the energy consumption approaches 400 million times present day energy usage. The first two centuries of use would not have a noticeable impact.