Thomas Murphy: “Physics and Planetary Ambitions”
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Galactic Scale Energy
In one of your most famous essays, you showed that at two point three % per year a energy growth, we would consume all hundred billion stars in the milky way galaxy worth of energy. So could you walk me through the math, if that's possible, on how you arrived at that conclusion and why that's relevant? Yes, certainly n one thing i will say about economic assumption is that if your model starts to be able to replace, interchange labor and capital and energy, and it's just all factors of production and en you can just slosh them all around, then you can understand why the model would suggest that any one thing like energy isn't that important,. And so you
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