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@july
Energy use per person versus GDP per capita makes it relatively clear that increasing the kilowatt hour per person increases GDP. It just really makes you think about the fact that everything really is downstream from energy. Energy, having energy means that you can do more work, you can make more food you can support more of your citizens and your fellow humans. It’s just the reality. Just really makes me think about how we need to produce more energy, when you think about how there’s a revival going on with nuclear reactors coming back online in the United States because AI data centers are driving electricity demand https://x.com/tphuang/status/1945666711895601298?s=46
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pugson
@pugson
we need to optimize for maximum kardashev scale opportunities
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downshift. 🏎️💨
@downshift.eth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale
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bgrill.eth
@bgrill.eth
reminds me this bit from Lee Kuan Yew, founder of modern Singapore: "Air conditioning was a most important invention for us, perhaps one of the signal inventions of history. It changed the nature of civilization by making development possible in the tropics. Without air conditioning you can work only in the cool early-morning hours or at dusk. The first thing I did upon becoming prime minister was to install air conditioners in buildings where the civil service worked. This was key to public efficiency."
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Fei
@feeei
This is why Vaclav Smil has been on my "to read" list forever.
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𒂭_𒂭
@m-j-r
imho, permit-free residential solar should be a universal policy. as you say with everything downstream of energy, the household finances and need for AC & foodstuffs should be in as little distress as possible, even if only reduced to velocity of money. I'm also very confident that the state would find economic incentives for any surplus residential energy beyond the utility's bargaining power.
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Ev | 유진 🇨🇦
@tch
Energy efficiency + unlimited energy generation = we are going to explore the universe.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
Are we sure that it's not the other way around? That increasing GDP leads to more energy demand, which leads to more energy production?
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Scott
@scottphd
@procoin curate fyi
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