Harry Veeder wrote:
Heat production may be trivial today, but that may change in the future.
It is not trivial today. It is already a problem. I do not think it will become as bad a problem as Paul predicts, even with cold fusion.
After all humanity now produces 10,000 times more heat than it did centuries ago. Is it not possible that in the centuries to come, humanity might be producing 10,000 times more heat than today?
We covered this topic here several times, and I covered it in the book. I recommend that energy intense manufacturing be conducted off planet in the distant future. Products should be brought to earth via a network of space elevators, and shipped via relatively slow (low energy, subsonic) transport.
- Jed
