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Global energy consumption is 1.5 x 10^13 watts. Under optimal conditions, with 25% efficiency that would take 60 billion square meters, or 60 000 square kilometers of panel. As a point of comparison, the area of Belgium is 30 528 km^2. Say we also have a very low solar panel price, say $100...

INTPs in my opinion can make excellent leaders, even in the top of the hierarchy. What INTP lack is not as much the ability to make good decisions, but the unwillingness, inability and general distaste towards controlling people. It really depends on what we think of as leadership. If it's the...

Ok, thanks. I'll look into those. But did I see a couple of "nazi books" in those recommendations? Oh well...

It uses your computers idle time to do scientific calculations. I have Folding@home myself. I can't think of any reason not to have one, since it doesn't affect your computer use in any way. It's just a matter of deciding what science project you find the most important.

I absolutely agree with you on this. Guess I'm just trying to promote my favourite project, as focus fusion seems to be less well known than polywell. It' also true that people won't change. Hopefully material abundance will bring the best out of people, though I wouldn't bet on it. As always...

So do I. Consumerism would most certainly increase, not only in first world countries, but most importantly in the third world, which would finally be able to catch up in terms of material living standards. Waste would not, since cheap energy would allow most anything to be recycled...

Polywell is probably the most promising fusion approach after focus fusion. The physicists behind Polywell and Focus Fusion, Bussard and Lerner gave both speeches at Google a few years ago regarding their research: Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really) Focus...

I'll rephrase that: "getting from the ground to a non-decaying orbit is the limiting factor..." Getting the needed horizontal velocity is tough precisely because of the atmospheric friction. A space elevator would solve this problem, but the concept relies on yet-to-come material science...

Todays ignorant citizen is tomorrows exotic caveman. Frozen people would be preserved as historical relics, if nothing else, and if they can be brought to life, wouldn't it be nice to have a living caveman instead of a frozen one? I also think it can be done. All the relevant information...

This seems to be true for many potentially revolutionary technologies. Human-level AI will always happen in 10 years, immortality will arrive by the time the claimant is 70, ect. So yes, these things should be looked at with a healthy dose of scepticism. What I like about this project, though...

9/9 Genius You are 78% knowledgable and 96% intellectual. Amazing! You have an incredible brain (intellect) and a powerhouse of information (knowledge)! Keep up the impressive work-- we all bow to you. ---- :smoker:

Real-time communication to other planets is just not possible because of the fundamental limitation of the speed of light. Using relay stations in space could make the communication brandwidth larger (bigger pics and videos), but would not affect the signal transmission time, since it takes...

_The_ most interesting ongoing scientific experiment I'm aware of: http://focusfusion.org/ These guys are attempting to build a relatively simple and cheap fusion reactor that generates electricity through aneutronic boron-hydrogen fusion. Not only that, but they think they can achieve it by...

Aloof is fine. And as for distinguishing features, I would imagine a place full of people with personalities like mine would be like the streets of Paris in Enki Bilal's comics. In fact you don't. Now than that's settled... Anyway, thanks for acknowledging my presence.

I read Kim Stanley Robinson's "The Years of Rice and Salt" recently and I must say it was an impressive book. It's basically about Europe being destroyed in the late middle ages and the development of world history from a non-western basis to the modern times. It was really nice to read a...

Oh yes. Is that a common condition here?

Hello. I've been browsing through this forum (read: stalked) for a while now and I thought I might actually start writing some stuff for a change. I've been meaning to for a while now but you know how it is.... So...I'm an INTP, more specifically of the transhumanist, atheist...