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joshcryer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-16-10 10:11 PM
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8. Energy and productivity efficiencies can flatline energy use in a growing system...
...however, that assumes a completely monolithic environment, where efficiency and productivity increase as adoption occurs. This is a fantasy, utopian, environment. You look at things like mere batteries and it becomes apparent that there are limitations that we are hitting with our technological level.

Now I'm all for having this sort of environment, where growth has no negative impact on the environment, and where energy utilization goes down, however, we do not exist in that environment, and short of singularity, it ain't a political reality and does not reflect current production.

There's nothing incorrect in the thermodynamic statement as it relates to the current capitalist reality, as profit trumps technology above all.
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