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by earthling8118 861 days ago
The amount of economic activity it supports is somewhat of a poor measure without further information. Yes, it is a complete waste in its current form. But that doesn't strictly mean that the electricity usage will scale with the percentage of economic activity that takes place using it. I would be interested in knowing how this number would change if it supported most economic activity. Surely it would go up, but I doubt it would do so linearly.