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    I thought the issue was trying to put a tax on sun light
    Or am I being negative lol

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    Just keep in mind that:

    If you use a growth rate in the use of energy at 2.9% per annum (which is what it has grown at for the last 350 years), in just another 275 years time, you'd need to cover every square inch of the Earth's landmass with solar panels to produce enough energy to meet demands.

    At that growth rate, we'd actually need to capture the entire power output of the sun in just 1,400 years!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Splinter View Post
    Just keep in mind that:

    If you use a growth rate in the use of energy at 2.9% per annum (which is what it has grown at for the last 350 years), in just another 275 years time, you'd need to cover every square inch of the Earth's landmass with solar panels to produce enough energy to meet demands.

    At that growth rate, we'd actually need to capture the entire power output of the sun in just 1,400 years!!
    You could grow a lot of weed with that much energy

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    Quote Originally Posted by Master Splinter View Post
    Just keep in mind that:

    If you use a growth rate in the use of energy at 2.9% per annum (which is what it has grown at for the last 350 years), in just another 275 years time, you'd need to cover every square inch of the Earth's landmass with solar panels to produce enough energy to meet demands.

    At that growth rate, we'd actually need to capture the entire power output of the sun in just 1,400 years!!
    Pfffft. That assumes we'll still be here.....
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    Quote Originally Posted by bsrlee View Post
    I was musing on this the other day - my nice, classy street has had several busts of plantations in rented houses over the years.

    I beats me why they don't just run part of the plant through the regular power board and pay the bills and only have a partial bypass to run the main plant - its not rocket science to look at your regular power bill and see how much power is used on average, then hook up that many lights to the regular board. I suppose we just never hear about the smarter ones - its like the perfect murder, its only perfect if nobody ever notices at all - we just see the dumb and/or greedy ones.
    The utility companies are getting smarter about this.
    They can check the total utilisation for an area and see that it reconciles with the sum of the bills of the meters in the area.
    Where it doesn't match (or get close), they go looking for the "leak".
    I believe that power, gas and water utilities are all doing this (or wanting too).
    Doesn't mean that finding the "leak" is any easier but at least they know they are looking for something.

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