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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3047

I am currently sitting alone in a large room that has about 100m^2 in floorspace so this talk of only having 100m^2 per person is a bit surreal to me atm

oh hey some people just walked in
hello, people.

aaaaaaand they're gone

wait crap I waaay underestimated the area of this place numbers-wise, it's more like 300-350m^2

If you tried to squeeze the world population into Texas the chunk of it allocated for absolutely everything that would be supposed to sustain me would be less than a third the size of the room I am currently sitting in. omg
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11145 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Even if you could manage to grow the food, sanitation (the REAL innovation that allows for high-density urban living without horrible epidemics) would be a nightmare. Normal cities already have overburdened sanitation systems, a Texas-sized city would be thermodynamically impossible.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3047

obviously human waste would need to be reprocessed by the algae
Confused

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Lasairfiona · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:50 am Post subject:

I have a chemical engineer friend who's entire Masters' thesis is about how bio waste won't grow nearly enough algae for biofuel. It is depressing because she is quite a fan of non-petroleum based energy.
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Lasairfiona · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 1:51 am Post subject:

In other news, that onepony article posted a couple pages back before this whole texas conversation was awesome.
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Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3047

yes, yes it was
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fritterdonut · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 5:19 am Post subject:

Dogen · Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 9323 Location: Bellingham, WA

That's odd. You know the post you're replying to is not only in a different thread, but a different subforum, right?
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fritterdonut · Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2012 6:53 am Post subject:

Sam · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 8840

and she and her group weren't even talking like, bioalgaepools or supercrowded cities or nothin. She just thought we would have really large cities and just allocate more room to farms to provide grains and cows and pigs and stuff and we'd all live pretty much like before.

Heretical Rants · Joined: 21 Jul 2009 Posts: 3047

In an idealized situation we could probably manage... I dunno, a few times higher population density than... maybe India...

*trails off due to not actually having figured this out*
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Kilgore · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 2827 Location: Portland, Or

I feel like Texas would be less desirable than a place with adequate rainfall. Maybe a Texas-sized region of the Midwest.
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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 11145 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Adequate rainfall? If that were true, the Midwest probably wouldn't be draining their fossil water supply.

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