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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
That's something I think is ignorant about labeling civilizations based on their energy use. It's like, "Well, you're more advanced because you waste more."
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Not really, consumption is not necessarily waste, in our case the energy of choice is not environmentally friendly.
IF we make the leap into space and do not kill ourselves by throwing rocks down our gravity well, we will consume more energy. The sun wastes a lot, lot, lot of energy every second, just radiated into space.
Dyson spheres and Ring World are an example of a Type II civilization.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson_sphere
http://www.aleph.se/Trans/Tech/Megas...yson_page.html
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=RingWorld