Elon Musk: We’re currently harnessing less than 1% of the Sun’s energy available on Earth.

Elon Musk: We’re currently harnessing less than 1% of the Sun’s energy available on Earth.

“One way to look at civilization is progress on the Kardashev scale. Kardashev scale 1 means you’ve harnessed all the power of a planet.

I think we’ve probably harnessed less than 1% of… pic.twitter.com/ef29aBOMix

— ELON DOCS (@elon_docs) October 31, 2024

“One way to look at civilization is progress on the Kardashev scale. Kardashev scale 1 means you’ve harnessed all the power of a planet.

I think we’ve probably harnessed less than 1% of the power of Earth. Kardashev scale 2 is you’ve harnessed all the power of your sun.

The Sun is overwhelmingly the largest source of energy in the solar system.

Everything else maybe amounts to about a trillionth of the energy in the solar system, compared to the Sun. So, it rounds up to 100%.

That’s how much of the energy in the future will be solar, when you view things from a Kardashev standpoint.”

— Future Investment Initiative Conference, October 29, 2024