From: m (mt_2@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Aug 31 1999 - 23:24:15 MDT
--- hal@finney.org wrote:
> Billy Brown, <ewbrownv@mindspring.com>, writes:
>
> Robert Freitas also raised a concern about killing
> plants by capturing
> solar energy they are currently using. You can
> divert energy to keep
> plants alive, but it further reduces the amount
> available.
>
Seeing as a large area of plants is necessary to keep
the air nice, that does take a fair hunk out of the
available insolation.
> I do think we can do somewhat better than Robert B's
> 100 kW/person;
> maybe 1000, 2000 or 5000 kW, but I doubt that we can
> hit 10000-50000
> kW until we are ready to pretty much completely take
> over running the
> planet's weather and climate, and possibly
> eliminating plants and animals.
> Of course reducing the human population by a factor
> of 10 would help too.
Would it be progress to create a concrete planet?
I think there just might be a few objections to this,
somehow.
Mike
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