[ExI] EROEI

[Keith Henson]

On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:37 PM, Kelly Anderson <kellycoinguy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Keith Henson <hkeithhenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If it takes that long, I doubt we will see it at all.  That's probably
>> post singularity.  I expect the singularity to be accompanied by a
>> precipitous fall in energy demand per capita.  The advanced countries
>> use on the order of 10kW per person.  It would take about 1% of that
>> to power them directly and 1/5 of a percent to run the brains alone.
>
> The Singularity will result in a precipitous fall in energy demand? I
> really don't see how. Every advance so far made by humanity has
> resulted in higher per capita energy demand. I don't see how the
> Singularity is different in this regard. Could you please spell out
> your argument Keith, this is very counter-intuitive for me. You may be
> right, I just don't see how you could be.

It's developed in some detail in "the clinic seed"

Keith