[eunoia]

> We will stop increasing our energy use one way or another once we hit this wall.

> If we want to continue using more energy we'll need a whole second Earth to do it on

Or we make like Niven's Puppeteers and move the Earth out into a further orbit with less insolation.

[stouset]

This doesn’t solve anything. We get less power from sunlight so we need to generate more on Earth. But we’re still fundamentally capped by the surface area of our rocky sphere.

If we want to keep growing energy use past this, we’ll need to inhabit other rocky bodies.