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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

The specifics are a pipe dream but the general principle holds: if energy suddenly becomes more plentiful and cheaper by orders of magnitude, society will find a way to use that new plentiful resource in ways that we can scarcely imagine today. That's always been true of new inventions, where much of the post-invention innovation comes in the form of finding new applications for a thing that has already been invented.