Continued Economic Growth: Boiling Temp in 400 Years
April 12, 2012, 05:00
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: denial, economics, energy, joules, Peak Demand, peak oil, physics, thermal energy, Tom Murphy, waste heat
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: denial, economics, energy, joules, Peak Demand, peak oil, physics, thermal energy, Tom Murphy, waste heat
Or, My Dinner With Andre the Giant Economist.
Another fun bit from Tom Murphy. Shades of Plato’s Republic.
…The upshot is that at a 2.3% growth rate (conveniently chosen to represent a 10× increase every century), we would reach boiling temperature in about 400 years. [Pained expression from economist.]
via Exponential Economist Meets Finite Physicist | Do the Math.
The economist says he believes that energy will become “arbitrarily cheap” in the future, before realizing how stupid that is.
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