While the U.S. backtracks on green steel commitments, Chinese companies are starting to make iron with hydrogen. One just made its first export deal to…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale . Type 1 for earth would be 10 QW = 10000 TW average consumption. We are currently at 18TW. Type 1 just from renewables is a bit of a stretch, as the definition is full coverage of earth’s surface in Solar. But 5.5x energy growth requires just 1% of planet surface.
I know what a type 1 civilization is but why is it something to aspire to? And how does it justify the irreversible ecological destruction which must be inflicted to get there?
Production (and it’s correlated consumption) as the sole measure of societal development is a Cold War anachronism, leave that in the 20th century. Talking about MW of power and Mt. of materials and dollar efficiency of infrastructure is completely detached from the derived human value.
What is this word salad supposed to mean?..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kardashev_scale . Type 1 for earth would be 10 QW = 10000 TW average consumption. We are currently at 18TW. Type 1 just from renewables is a bit of a stretch, as the definition is full coverage of earth’s surface in Solar. But 5.5x energy growth requires just 1% of planet surface.
I know what a type 1 civilization is but why is it something to aspire to? And how does it justify the irreversible ecological destruction which must be inflicted to get there?
Production (and it’s correlated consumption) as the sole measure of societal development is a Cold War anachronism, leave that in the 20th century. Talking about MW of power and Mt. of materials and dollar efficiency of infrastructure is completely detached from the derived human value.
It’s a better goal than forcing people to die.