Yeah, this is one of the scarier future prospects I’ve heard kicking around. We can really only bootstrap an industrial civilization once, because the available energy simply isn’t going to be there next time. We’d better get it right. Fortunately, we’ve done pretty well on that score thus far, but it’s one of those lingering distant-future fears.
Yeah, this is one of the scarier future prospects I’ve heard kicking around. We can really only bootstrap an industrial civilization once, because the available energy simply isn’t going to be there next time. We’d better get it right. Fortunately, we’ve done pretty well on that score thus far, but it’s one of those lingering distant-future fears.