Comment by Retric
3 days ago
It’s raising the moons orbit and slowing the earths rotation. But changing either by even 1cm/second would take a long time even if you’re extracting 1 TW 24/7.
3 days ago
It’s raising the moons orbit and slowing the earths rotation. But changing either by even 1cm/second would take a long time even if you’re extracting 1 TW 24/7.
Those are rookie numbers. Exponential growth is real and lvl 1.2 in the Kardashian scale is the kpi.
edit: Kardashev scale
/s if not obvious
You can’t extract more energy from ocean tides than are actually in the ocean tides.
> Exponential growth is real
It’s really not. 99% of the energy used by humanity is still sunlight used to grow crops the same it’s been for thousands of years, and crop land use hasn’t been increasing exponentially. The majority of growth has been from efficiency gains not utilizing more energy.
Our ancestors realized irrigation and selective breeding allowed for more production from the same land. Fertilizer, better breeds, insecticides, meant more yield and automation meant less labor but the underlying energy input is unchanged barring increases in land under cultivation or the mouthes of livestock.
Instead many historic curves look exponential when you ignore the underlying population growth driving the whole thing and the recent reductions in fertility.
Fair enough.
But I have no doubt the energy gained by gifting the Kardashians escape velocity would be scientifically significant.
Funnily enough, this looks like the same surname with a Persian root for “stone carver” and Armenian and Russian surname suffixes. Given Persian origins, one can speculate that it was russified rather than armenified. So Kardashev’s ancestors might be Kardashians!