[hhdhdbdb]

Bitcoin is a pure exanple thay shows the limit to energy consumption is how much money people have to throw at it. And if that money is thrown into generating more energy it is a cycle. There is no stomach size and human reproduction constraints. We can waste power as quickly as we can generate more.

The only hope is to generate this power greenly.

[ben_w]

The existence of examples where it happens by design does not say anything either way about if it must happen all the time.

[hhdhdbdb]

Yeah I am not saying all the time, but I am saying when it happens it can br less bounded than "human population growth in the early 21st century."