Right now, humanity is worried about energy. Not only do we need more of it to meet growing needs, but we also need to address climate change.
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Where does humanity lie on the scale? We’re definitely not anywhere near even Type I. Some people have estimated that we’re a Type 0.6 or 0.7, but keep in mind that the scale isn’t linear. Type 0.6 isn’t six tenths of the way to Type I, because each step up is millions of times greater than the step before it. So, we’ve still got a looooong way to go before Type I.First, it’s rooted in mid-20th century assumptions about energy use.
It’s entirely possible that an advanced civilization with a religious fetish for wasting energy could achieve an impressive Kardashev number while doing nothing useful or good. The effect of waste heat is small compared to climate change, but it would still become a problem if we were to urbanize too much of our planet, even if those mega-megacities were powered completely by renewables. So, no matter what, we’d better have space colonization in our future if we want to keep multiplying and growing our population.
But, if we decide it’s necessary to generate even more insane amounts of energy away from Earth, we’re going to need to start thinking bigger than solar panels, wind turbines, and other sources of energy that ultimately come from stars or the formations of solar systems.YouTube Channel give us a possible way to get as far as Kardashev Type III, which is really unimaginable in many ways. But, just because something is unimaginable doesn’t mean we can’t run the numbers on it.
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