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Old 11-30-2007, 06:37 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jowey View Post
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
This is like neanderthals speculating how our civilization rates, "Well, they throw spears across continents so that's about a three on my finger scale."
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