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Oops it’s actually 0.6 TW.

https://ourworldindata.org/energy-production-consumption

Convert TWh to TW for a year average.

Huh! I'm kind of stunned that we only use ~30x the power that we did back then. If I'd been asked to guess I would have added another 0 or even two of them.

Yeah we had an exponential jump when we discovered oil but we maxed that out and the growth has been linear since (and paying for it environmentally too).

I’m waiting for the next big major discovery in energy generation.

We’re always on the verge of fusion… fusion will be like the discovery of oil. Humanity will jump forward… well, technologically at least.

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