Now start doing the math for how much power (I made it easy, I I'm only asking for the rate) that is required to keep someone alive indefinitely.
Don't cheat! Don't use the caloric needs of a fully grown adult. Their bodies stoically accept a lot of the damage done by entropy. You have expend additional energy to reverse it.
Don't cheat, remember to account for a population growth rate == the current birth rate.
If you don't like having to account for the growth rate, please give a moral explanation for why some select few get to live forever and others croak.
How much power do you need? How are you supplying this power? It's cute to say "Sun". But solar panels (let's assume 100% efficient) require surface area that would otherwise be used by plant and animals for their existence.
So live forever by
1. Radically transforming the Earth into a massive ball of polycrystalline silicon
2. Giving eternity to only a (very) select few.
Don't cheat! Don't use the caloric needs of a fully grown adult. Their bodies stoically accept a lot of the damage done by entropy. You have expend additional energy to reverse it.
Don't cheat, remember to account for a population growth rate == the current birth rate.
If you don't like having to account for the growth rate, please give a moral explanation for why some select few get to live forever and others croak.
How much power do you need? How are you supplying this power? It's cute to say "Sun". But solar panels (let's assume 100% efficient) require surface area that would otherwise be used by plant and animals for their existence.
So live forever by
1. Radically transforming the Earth into a massive ball of polycrystalline silicon 2. Giving eternity to only a (very) select few.