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by tbrownaw 838 days ago
At some point the sun is supposed to go red giant and eat the earth. Anything that can last at least that long is effectively unlimited.
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Projected oil demand is currently measured in trillions of tonnes per century. Deuterium is only seven or eight orders of magnitude more energy-dense than oil. If our power use continues to grow exponentially, we won't get close to the five billion year mark before running out: ten thousand years would be pushing it.