📉 Bill Ok so IMO future of civilization rests on us harnessing fusion energy. Discuss @trohs

🧔 Justin I wonder how we'll affect the earth when we have the surface covered in enough solar panels, wind turbines, and so on. The sun only pumps so much energy into the earth per day, and any more than that being consumed will have us running at a deficit. What does that look like? I've never crunched the numbers, so maybe this is unrealistic, but it seems our power demands are only increasing with population.

Mhmm the land surface area on earth, subtracted off that used for farm land is about ~47,435,995,896 m2, if the CSP setups it all it would produce about ~94870 times the daily consumption for the US...not considering advances to CSP moleten salt storage and concentrators from todays tech... i think we'll be fine for a couple of life times at least.