First, actual infinite power is impossible. It violates a bunch of the laws of nature. Not going to happen ever, at all.
Second, practically infinite power (meaning more power than we could ever use) is also out of reach. Solar/wind is super cheap, but you still need to build and maintain the PV/generators and that will always have a cost. Also, there’s infinitely much we could do with energy, so if energy gets cheaper we will just use more of it.
If energy was close to free, we’d just replace cargo ships with railguns or something crazy wasteful like that. We’d invest crazy amounts of energy in making things a little bit more comfortable.
Just look at the current AI craze, or the crypto craze. None of that is actually doing something really necessary, but it makes numbers go up on some billionaire’s charts and thus we waste ungodly amounts of energy into it.
If it wasn’t that way, and instead we’d keep our lifestyle and just use cleaner energy production to not destroy the planet, we wouldn’t have global warming at all right now. With the lifestyle of the 50s and the efficient tech from today, global warming wouldn’t exist.
But we like numbers going up and thus we burn more and more energy and having more energy available just means we burn more of it.
Infinitely far.
First, actual infinite power is impossible. It violates a bunch of the laws of nature. Not going to happen ever, at all.
Second, practically infinite power (meaning more power than we could ever use) is also out of reach. Solar/wind is super cheap, but you still need to build and maintain the PV/generators and that will always have a cost. Also, there’s infinitely much we could do with energy, so if energy gets cheaper we will just use more of it.
If energy was close to free, we’d just replace cargo ships with railguns or something crazy wasteful like that. We’d invest crazy amounts of energy in making things a little bit more comfortable.
Just look at the current AI craze, or the crypto craze. None of that is actually doing something really necessary, but it makes numbers go up on some billionaire’s charts and thus we waste ungodly amounts of energy into it.
If it wasn’t that way, and instead we’d keep our lifestyle and just use cleaner energy production to not destroy the planet, we wouldn’t have global warming at all right now. With the lifestyle of the 50s and the efficient tech from today, global warming wouldn’t exist.
But we like numbers going up and thus we burn more and more energy and having more energy available just means we burn more of it.