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| Comment | Post #283382 |
The food supply in the US uses about 10Kcal of energy in transport per Kcal of food value. This is relatively extreme in the current world... but in the world-farm scenario, the problem would be worse by a factor of about 24, as only cities next to the world-farm would have local food.
Waste will ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283382 |
Let's pretend that we aren't contributing to global warming because 100% of the power for this building comes from solar power systems with no production resource costs.
We still have 24TW of heat to transport away, or else the building will rapidly turn into an oven. The natural world has huge he... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |