On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:14:19AM -0700, Thaths wrote: > What is the current thinking among Singularitarians about how the > world will be powered post-Singularity? Considering recent
The Singularity is a prediction horizont. About the only thing you can say what's post it is that it will be compatible with physical laws. (Not necessarily of this universe, and not necessarily as we know them). > perturbations in oil prices and effect it has been having on other > things, I am increasingly curious about the amount of energy that can > safely and sustainably harvested from this planet and how efficiently This planet? Why so limited? > this energy can be used. If I understand the Singularity correctly, > the computations to run a post-Singularity world are quite energy > hungry. The local star emits some 2 MT of matterenergy per second. The tiny fraction Earth gets is still considerable by our current standareds http://www.climatechangeactionnetwork.org.au/solarresource.html -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org";>leitl</a> http://leitl.org ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07100, 11.36820 http://www.ativel.com http://postbiota.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE
