top | item 22215670 (no title) blencdr | 6 years ago Productivity by automation is constrained by the available energy, also economic growth could already be limited by the lack of availale energy.https://energyeconomicgrowth.org/sites/eeg.opml.co.uk/files/... discuss order hn newest adrianN|6 years ago Solar panels are pretty cheap. If lack of energy were a problem, I'd expect a lot more of them. ben_w|6 years ago They are cheap, but production of them is currently growing roughly exponentially, so I don’t think your argument holds. siculars|6 years ago The cost of energy is going towards zero while (and because) available energy is going to infinity.
adrianN|6 years ago Solar panels are pretty cheap. If lack of energy were a problem, I'd expect a lot more of them. ben_w|6 years ago They are cheap, but production of them is currently growing roughly exponentially, so I don’t think your argument holds.
ben_w|6 years ago They are cheap, but production of them is currently growing roughly exponentially, so I don’t think your argument holds.
siculars|6 years ago The cost of energy is going towards zero while (and because) available energy is going to infinity.
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