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Links For Wednesday 16th May 2007

• The Futurist: A Future Timeline for Energy (via Warren Ellis)
  I find this interesting, because it’s the first time I’ve seen a figures for what Kardashev type we’ve currently attained (as a global civilisation). Apparently, we’re a 0.71-type civilisation, which is better than I thought we were doing.
  (tags: energy environment)
• Wikipedia: Kardashev scale
  A bit of context for my previous link - Nikolai Kardashev’s scale for measuring the progress of a civilisation by how much usable energy it has available to it. As I noted: we’re not yet even type one. Sad.
  (tags: energy wikipedia civilization reference)