Reply to post: Re: Good thing world electricity production won't flatline until 2040

By 2040, computers will need more electricity than the world can generate

Jonathan Richards 1
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Re: Good thing world electricity production won't flatline until 2040

@DougS

That was my initial reaction, too. But look again at that graph: the Y axis is logarithmic. Even if you plot a line on it where electricity production doubles every five years [1], it's still going to intercept the IC demand lines some time before I'm a centenarian.

[1] I'm reminded of a Dilbert cartoon, in which Dilbert points to a presentation slide, and says "In phase 3, we meet an alien civilization which shares its advanced technology with us".

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