Sometimes I wonder if proof-of-work isn't actually a better incentivizer for new technological development than proof-of-stake, because it uses more energy. We need to ask if new forms of energy production like nuclear fusion are pie-in-the-sky fantasy or actually technologically possible and practical.
If they'll never become reality, then Malthus is right and we need to cut back and conserve.
If they will, then we are on the verge of becoming a Type I civilization. We need to increase energy production, not slow down. In some countries they started building new power plants explicitly because of the crypto boom. Maybe crypto is the incentive the market needs to finally force affordable fusion power into reality?
Nuclear fusion is certainly possible and we've successfully begun getting more energy out of the experiments than we put in. From this point on, it's a matter of scale and practicality.
Malthus is retarded, and was wrong about literally everything, similar to how Marx was wrong about value.
Fusion will be attacked similar to how nuclear power has been attacked: by communist governments, using socialist useful idiots, to completely undermine technological development and energy independence with extreme regulations and slander until the Communist states can catch up.
Expect the first accident in Fusion power to be met with a 100 day 24/7 media firestorm about how Fusion power is more dangerous than nuclear power and any sane planet would ban it immediately, paid for by the CCP.
Sometimes I wonder if proof-of-work isn't actually a better incentivizer for new technological development than proof-of-stake, because it uses more energy. We need to ask if new forms of energy production like nuclear fusion are pie-in-the-sky fantasy or actually technologically possible and practical.
If they'll never become reality, then Malthus is right and we need to cut back and conserve.
If they will, then we are on the verge of becoming a Type I civilization. We need to increase energy production, not slow down. In some countries they started building new power plants explicitly because of the crypto boom. Maybe crypto is the incentive the market needs to finally force affordable fusion power into reality?
Nuclear fusion is certainly possible and we've successfully begun getting more energy out of the experiments than we put in. From this point on, it's a matter of scale and practicality.
Malthus is retarded, and was wrong about literally everything, similar to how Marx was wrong about value.
Fusion will be attacked similar to how nuclear power has been attacked: by communist governments, using socialist useful idiots, to completely undermine technological development and energy independence with extreme regulations and slander until the Communist states can catch up.
Expect the first accident in Fusion power to be met with a 100 day 24/7 media firestorm about how Fusion power is more dangerous than nuclear power and any sane planet would ban it immediately, paid for by the CCP.