It's not "so-called" it is real, and it depends on petrostates pricing oil exports in dollars. To achieve this, the US has had for decades held an alliance with the dictators of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf tyrants.
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You crunch the numbers, if the physical energy economy has a couple centuries of the same exponential growth we just had in the 19th and 20th, it ends with melting the Earth's surface
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(This assumes more economic production means more energy intensive production, which I don’t think is correct)
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sometimes if you’re lucky the waste heat can fuel something else but that doesn’t affect the fact that as you say by expending that energy at all, the environment is affected. making processors and algorithms that use less heat in the first place seems like a good research goal
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(as in, it seems like a useful-in-all-circumstances branch of research. there are other things to focus on in general)
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