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moocowduckquack on Sept 13, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Sea Change – The Pacific's Perilous Turn

You don't need to get everyone in the world to be consuming more energy than the average European to have converted most energy to solar though. I am all for using fudge-factors to allow for rough data, but I don't see the point in starting a calculation with completely fictional data when there is data available.

yk on Sept 13, 2013 [–]

Well, I like my 100% renewable future with flying cars. So I allow for some growth of energy consumption.

moocowduckquack on Sept 13, 2013 | [–]

Flying cars? Ok, I'm sold, half the Sahara it is.

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