Simple Arithmetic

[a500lbgorilla]

There's no reason to think the technology for doing this wont improve though.

Assumptions make an ass out of U and Mptions! or something like that...

I think the fact that nature is still way more efficient in extracting solar energy than we are, is enough proof that there's huge potential.

Just think of the amount of solar energy that is turned into biomass through photosynthesis. That is many times higher than global energy consumption. My point is that energy is not something that we'll somehow run out off. There is huge amounts of energy all around us.

Think about all the energy produced through digestion of food. Or the energy released in a supernova or in colliding stars. Or the intense light given off by pulsars!

No shit, we won't run out of energy. But how are we going to make any of that help us? You say, "we will!" We say, "What if we don't?"

I'll admit it's possible we'll innovate and the energy crisis will disappear, if you admit it's at least just as likely we won't.