Tim Knowles
Sep 4, 2018 · 1 min read

Are you serious?

To become a Type I civilization we would have to harness all the available energy of our home planet at 100% efficiency

100% efficiency seems unlikely in any regime of energy utilization.

Of course Type II an beyond are going to remain fantasy as well.

We need to do better but we need a more practical metric.

TEK

    Tim Knowles

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    Worked in our nations space programs for more than 35 years