TFW born too soon to experience humans evolve from TYPE IV to a TYPE V civilization,aka, Mormon-God status

>ugly corruption issues with fed funding, and construction of these panels is not exactly a clean process

none of these are inherent with the energy. human error should not be used as an arguments against it. the only energy i could see having that argument is nuclear.

In order for solar energy to be viable, you need good batteries. Also, current panels are like 4% efficient. There needs to be some major breakthroughs to make it viable.

>Also, current panels are like 4% efficient.
What is this, the 1970s?

>4%
Incorrect. The most efficient panel on the market today is actually 22.5%

>research
There's also gas engines close to 100% efficiency but they're not commercially viable. Wikipedia says you get around 6% for most commercial panels.

how do you get the electricity from sahara to the rest of the world?

>> 100% efficient gasoline engines
Bullshit. You are making Carnot rotate in his grave. Heat engines cannot be 100% efficient. Gasoline, by the nature of combustion can only burn so hot so we get nowhere near 100% efficiency.

.5%
There are better solar cells on the market for satellite and spacecraft, that have efficiencies up to 30%
spectrolab.com/space.htm

In principle it should be possible to make solar electric conversion systems that are ~80% efficient because that's the Carnot efficiency for a temperature differential of about 3000 K (how hot the sun is)

>Wikipedia says
No, it doesn't.

>The basis of producing solar panels revolves around the use of silicon cells. These silicon cells are typically 10-20% efficient at converting sunlight into electricity, with newer production models now exceeding 22%.

Why bother even using wikipedia if you're not going to read it?

Mormons believe they'll rule over their own planet as a deity
That's type 2, 3, or 4 depending on how they share space with other gods

humans will go extinct before we reach type 2

Fuck off

Type 2 can't happen. It is full and humans won't even be able to do Type 1

Fuck off

dude you just gotta believe in science, with science and technology, we can do anything!

Anyone else thinking that level 3 is unreachable?

>humans evolve from TYPE IV to a TYPE V civilization
totally unproven scifi speculation. probably won't ever happen anyway
chance are humanity will go extinct within the next 500 years are much higher
so, who care

but Rush Limbaugh and Fox news told me that fossil fuel alternatives make baby Jesus cry...

How can this be possible?

For biological life yes.

even level 1 is hard to archieve
total control over a planet will take humans another 1000years, we doesn't even discovered the deepsea yet, let alone controlling it.

The Kardeshev scale is such a bullshit meme. Type III is never going to happen, not because we wont be able to but because we will never have the need for it. Some civilizations reach type II but after that we would have efficient fusion, quantum vacuum fluctuation energy extraction, or mass energy equivalance engines driven by hawking radiation from captured/created black holes. The mass/energy equivalence potential from a few stars and planets would power all of our energy needs for the duration of the universe. If any species ever needs to build a galactic sized solar farm, they are doing something wrong.

>technology advances forever just like in my scifi cartoon

The Kardashev crap is a meme.

It works like this

Level 1. Stone crap
Level 2.Metal Crap
Level 3.Basic Chemical Tech like Bombs and Firearms
Level 4. Industrial Tech
Level 5. Electronic Tech
Level 6. Biological Mastery
Level 7 Molecular mastery(Nanotechnology)
Level 8 Atomic Mastery
Level 9 Quantum Mastery
Level 10 Sub quantum mastery
Level 11 Planck mastery
Level 12 Multiversal physics

We humans can already craft molecules into artificial substances(nanotechnology) and are just beginning to understand quantum physics. A civilization that can move interstellar would already be in Sub Quantum physics and the Type 3 meme would be Planck physics.

For level 1 we would need to find a way to siphon energy directly from the core without creating a supervolcano in the process.

>For level 1 we would need to find a way to siphon energy directly from the core without creating a supervolcano in the process.

deep geothermal has been possible with off the shelf technology for almost 100 years. The problem is >Rush Limbaugh and Fox news told me that fossil fuel alternatives make baby Jesus cry...

We'll not necessarily be doing something wrong needing that much energy, it could be necessary for some advanced technology.

You're clearly not thinking things through if you genuinely believe that biological life cannot reach stage III

>humans can't even stop killing themselves because of pussy and money
>ever living this cursed shithole

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desu god tier answer, literally we are the building blocks of gods, that is unless we rekk eachother back to the stone age.