Bitcoin consumes 4,000,000,000 W of power to process four transactions per second. A single Raspberry Pi with a database can do an order of magnitude more on 5W. Think about that next time you wonder if it's a good design.
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Your scaling example doesn't make any sense. Something like Lightning provides at best a constant improvement. Lightning might provide a 1000x improvement *as a baseline* but if you double the base layer transaction capacity you double Lightning capacity. No more.
Remember Lightning relies on the base layer for initial setup, and for exceptional conditions. Those will always be a roughly constant fraction of the total transaction volume. Lightning provides an improvement of the inverse of that fraction. No more.
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Solutions for scalable funding of channel networks are being developed and when combined with Schnorr signatures it probably gets even better: https://www.tik.ee.ethz.ch/file/a20a865ce40d40c8f942cf206a7cba96/Scalable_Funding_Of_Blockchain_Micropayment_Networks%20(1).pdf … The future will tell but my guess is for now at least the smartest minds are working on BTC instead of altcoins.
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