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wat10000yesterday at 5:25 PM1 replyview on HN

Once you have enough to power the world and are able to recycle them, then you're done with extracting resources for them.


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shawabawa3yesterday at 5:44 PM

Unfortunately human energy use appears to be proportional to the amount of energy available

Hopefully we are able to reach a point of effectively unlimited cheap energy and storage but it's that if overnight we suddenly had enough solar+batteries to power today's usage, we'd suddenly need way more as demand rises