Your numbers are way off. Also, if you want to run this planet on electricity alone: you’re going to need a lot more than 20 TW and you will immediately run into mineral extraction limits.
And there are multiple industrial processes that a thermal cycle would be better than producing electricity.
But I agree that we definitely are going to run into a great many issues during this time of transition and why we need as many thinking minds as possible to find solutions to them.
Your numbers are way off. Also, if you want to run this planet on electricity alone: you’re going to need a lot more than 20 TW and you will immediately run into mineral extraction limits.
How exactly are they way off?
And there are multiple industrial processes that a thermal cycle would be better than producing electricity.
But I agree that we definitely are going to run into a great many issues during this time of transition and why we need as many thinking minds as possible to find solutions to them.