@elonmusk: Keeping up with the Kardashevs
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Elon Musk discusses humanity's minimal energy usage on the Kardashev scale compared to the sun's output.
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Keeping up with the Kardashevs
Jaynit (@jaynitx): Elon Musk reveals why, measured against the sun’s energy, human civilization barely registers as existing at all:
“Right now we’re very low on the Kardashev one scale. If you say what proportion of our planet’s power are we harnessing, it’s a very, very tiny number. And we’re
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