Jesse Peltan
@JessePeltan · 17. Mai 2025
If you're not familiar with log scales, it can be easy to overlook just how stark this difference really is.
Our civilization today doesn't even register on the scale of solar energy.
Jesse Peltan@JessePeltan· 12. Mai 2025For most of human existence, we had only 100 watts per person - enough food to fuel metabolism.
Fire and animal labor expanded our power supply to a few hundred watts per person.
Today, the average American has ~10,000 W at their disposal - a 100x increase.
A 100x increase in
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