The Focus Fusion Society Forums Focus Fusion Cafe Immortality Reply To: Toshiba's "Micro Nuclear Reactor" – it's not fusion, but it's here now

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wolfram
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Is the heat dissapation problem also magically solved? the amount of energy used by an exponentially growing populace is also exponential, I did some back of the envelope calculations to try and figure what rate the radius of populated space would have to grow if power were growing exponentially, given that temperature would be the fourth root of power. if you have exponentially growing power, and surface area can grow at most with the square of your radius growth, eventually your frontier will have to grow at faster than the speed of light. I’m still advocating the population pyramid had better be a rod.