Tom Ritchford
Jun 23, 2022

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Man, I was really hoping there, but 1GW of power planned to appear in 2049 is far too little, far too late.

In 2020, the world used 173,340,000 gigawatt-hours of energy. A 1GW power plant generates about 8800 gigawatt hours a year, so the total energy output of the world is about 20,000 1GW power plants.

And we need to reduce our CO2 output by 90% in the next decade to avoid catastrophe.

Replacing less than 0.005% of the world's power with solar satelites by 2049 isn't going to avert anything.

How depressing. No claps for misrepresenting how useful this is.

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