Wow such a great answer, thanks for sharing the thoughts that went into this. It's crazy that there are so many considerations when taking into account the limited speed of light.
What you describe can be done with self-hosted dawarich instance + the owntracks app. It records location history and lets you visualize it in a web interface.
Yes I've also tried it and reached similar conclusions. Do update it to the latest version though, as I did report an issue with non ASCII characters and for me it got fixed in v0.4.7+
GW and TWh are not the same unit. You need to multiply by the hours of effective sun in a year (and applying some reduction factor for the fact that there isn't 24h of sun every day, nor that the full production capacity is reached)
Even if that doesn't cover the energy demand, the number is not negligible for 438 GW of capacity.
Assuming that the effective full sun equivalent in terms of energy production is only 10% of a day in average, we get:
24 h/d × 365 d × 0.1 × 0.438 TW = 384 TWh
I have no idea about the 10% factor, someone more knowledgeable can coreect me, but, we are not speaking thousands of years if the growth continues before the full energy production value is getting close to the energy demand.
> With Legacy Support, organisations running their systems on top of Ubuntu 14.04 LTS can obtain an additional two years of expanded security maintenance and phone and ticket support. This enables IT managers to prepare a detailed upgrade plan for the next LTS
Yeah sure... Couldn't make that plan over the last 8 years, but two more will surely do it.